A model annotated blog listing. I can imagine that some students out and about will be compiling annotated listings of blogs and sites devoted to a particular topic. Kenilworth Chess Club has a good model devoted to chess blogs. See also the appealing goal set by their master blogger, Michael Goeller, who must almost certainly be the fellow I used to work with at Rutgers:

I hope to create a space for the Kenilworth Chess Club on the web that is as inviting as the club itself. # [0 & P]

Hurricane / timestamp. Today's frequent hurricane updates at the NOLA blog in New Orleans are missing only one thing: a timestamp, so a reader can get a sense of the speed of these frightening developments. News-based blogging should have timestamps. Update: recent posts have added the time.

Many blogs covering the storm are listed at Arts Journal. Via Ed Cone. [0 & P]

Innovation at the boundaries. Nice advice over at Learning Circuits Blog in a post from David Lee:

Be attuned to the emergence of new practices at boundaries.

Those boundaries might be anywhere -- between teachers and students, between school and workplace, between school and community, between human and machine, between professional and client or citizen. Thinking about my rambling post yesterday, I could imagine new practices emerging if scientists found ways to collaborate with people who don't ordinarily do science. [0 & P]