Ofcom Poll: What do you think of blogs?

Ofcom are currently running a poll to capture your view on blogging. (What is blogging?)
The Poll Question: What do you think of blogs? Are they:

The way forward for journalism
Hit and miss – some are great, some less so
Self-opinionated, amateurish twaddle

To vote, you can find the poll on the lower right hand column of the Ofcom home [...]

Using Web 2.0 in an ESOL classroom

The latest edition of Reflect, published by NRDC*, contains a practical article on the use of web 2.0 tools within an ESOL** classroom. 
The author Liz Boyden (http://lizboyden.wordpress.com) outlines the tools she uses which include:

Twitter (http://twitter.com) – micro blog i.e. short messages/posts
Tumblr (http://tumblr.com) – multimedia focused blog i.e. text, photos, sound and video files
pbwiki (http://pbwiki.com) – [...]