I taught my students to blog at the tutorial class this morning. Reason? I gave them an extended blogging assignment that spans throughout the entire semester. It's structured in such a way that those who choose to participate in this assignment have everything to gain, but those who choose to not do so stand to lose nothing.

For some, it's daunting; for the others, it's exciting - really depends on what sort of personality one is, doesn't it? I mooted this idea of getting them to blog because I felt that it's a tremendously effective way of disseminating information and ideas to the world in as short and as (almost) costless a way as possible. A couple of them have already begun their blogging exercise (for examples, see here and here and here and here). I'm really happy with what I'm seeing so far. I hope they have as much fun as one should have when communicating theology to the world.

This reminds me, next month marks the one-year anniversary of my blogging career. It's therefore in order that I acknowledge some people who have been propelling factors in my participation in blogdom. Thanks, Sivin, for encouraging me to embark on what has now become an almost daily spiritual discipline for me. Thanks also, Irene, for being the ever present help whenever the blog technicalities get a tad too tedious for my fat fingers - and remember to have your meals regularly; I mean it!

As with anything else, blogging can be and has been used for the most nonsensical purposes. But at its best, I think it has revolutionised the dissemination of beneficial information.

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