winding up

A quick entry but an entry all the same

in several weeks time i have to present at a research conference abou thte merits of using blogging as a research tool. So to try and bring together some of my ideas i thought well i'll attempt to blog them and then do a quick thematic analysis of it. Needless to say this is all a very embyonic idea at the moment.

Sohere's a quick start of some pros and cons

pros
- it's a good place to journal and capture thoughts/reflective space
- technological benefits - adding pictures, hyper links etc
- no need to transcribe!!
- others can contibute - could become like a focus group
- congruent with techy studies

cons
- propaganda - who is the blog for - do you censor/edit etc. This seems a major difference to a paper journal (in some ways anyhow)
- linked to the above - the lack of privacy (although i refer to the question posted before that gufrun proved wrong - 'does anybody actually read this?')
- waiting for the pc to wake up - i would never turn my pc on just to blog at the moment
- it's not for those who aren't very techy

i'm sure there are loads more but i'll add themas i think of them

T