Taking questions. Carolyn Elefant suggests, among other things, that profession-oriented bloggers offer occasional days in which they invite and answer questions. In an article in GPSolo Magazine for June 2005 she says:

Any requests? Increasingly, bloggers offer “all-request days” when they’ll respond to questions from readers. Law tech blogger Dennis Kennedy offers an all-request day every so often at www.denniskennedy.com/blog, as does Kansas family law attorney Grant Griffiths. And even bloggers who don’t offer formal request days are always looking for new material and welcome reader questions because responding will often produce an interesting blog post.

It's interesting to think about formalizing a practice like that, first for faculty and then among students in a class. For faculty the practice becomes a sort of online office hour, while for students it might become a way of speeding the switch from passivity to taking responsibility for finding, making, and sharing knowledge. If it could start to seem normal to do those three things . . . [0 & P]