I found this source via twitter earlier today and, after tweeting with KCF, decided to post it for more diablogging: A Philosophy of Blogging from a new Chronicle of Higher Education blog called Old School, New School. BTW, I love how we have started tweet-a-logging too (or engaging in some twittersations…okay, I’ll stop now).

I don’t have much time to write right now, so I’ll just post a few passages that seem particularly relevant to our discussion:

Mike: Another thing that interests me about the tension between “old school” and “new school” is whether the blog form challenges what I think occupies most academic writers, namely justifying a proposition with the best reasons one can think of. More specifically, I am interested in the possibility that blogging captures what is sometimes called the forward-looking “logic of discovery,” in contrast with the retrospective sort of writing that relies on a “logic of justification.”

Mary: Blogging and writing in public and creating a conversation in public creates a space where your a-ha moments or “forward-looking logic of discovery” happen in a virtual café, in a public space.

I like the idea of moving away from justification and towards exploration and discovery. As I mentioned in a recent tweet, I don’t like the language of discovery–what about logic of engagement instead? Or a logic of coming-to-awareness? Hmm….not sure. What do you think, KCF?