A discussion about blogging

This is myself (hosting) and a few students on the postgraduate Diploma in Magazine journalism. We are discussing some of the concerns about blogging and what advantages blogging can offer. Apologises for the laughter at the beginning, I couldn't figure out how to edit it out. I think it's interesting to get some other people directly putting their views onto my blog rather than always giving my own. I think that this guest blog by Scott Elliott on Reporter.net confirms many of the points that the group here mentioned.