Errata

The Exponent - features: "Popular tools for self-expression and information exchange in the cyber world — Weblogs, or blogs, as they are called for short — have become an increasingly popular fixture on the Internet since the late '90s and now several Purdue professors are bringing them into the classroom.

According to an upcoming book tentatively titled "The New Technologies Handbook," which is co-authored by David Blakesley, associate professor of English, the definition of a blog is an online journal or commentary usually written by an individual or a small group of people.

Blakesley, the director of Purdue's professional writing program, learned about blogs from a colleague, researched them and began using them in his classroom last summer."