Anyone can blog on the Project Bamboo Planning Wiki...

Confluence, the software that drives the Planning Wiki, calls blog posts "news" so the way to create a post is to click the "Add News" link in the upper right corner of any page in the Planning Wiki space.

(Not sure what a "blog" is? Though the term is often used to describe an on-line log or diary authored by a single person, the Planning Wiki blog is open to contributions by anyone in the Project Bamboo community. A series of comments and thoughts contributed in the form of mini-essays -- that might be more or less formally constructed depending on their author -- this blog will evolve into a survey of topics of interest and concern to our common effort to evolve and describe Project Bamboo. You don't have to write a blog to comment on someone else's post ... sometimes the dialog that follows a provocative post is as interesting as the idea that started things off.)

The most recent blogs, and the comments posted in response to them, can be viewed on the "Blog Posts and Discussion" page on the wiki, which is linked (as "Blogs & Discussion") in the "Quick Links: Project Bamboo" panel that appears on the right side of most pages. Anyone can also use a pre-made RSS feed link (or create a new one), to monitor new posts with an RSS reader (details can be found on the page itself, http://wikibamboo.uchicago.edu/x/HIAv).

Who should blog what? That's largely up to the Project Bamboo community. We've created the "Blog Posts and Discussion" page to encourage discussion of ideas, proposals, projects, and other efforts that intersect with the core question Project Bamboo aims to address: how can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services? We hope and expect that new themes of scholarship, future directions for Project Bamboo, and discussion of consortial models will surface in blog posts and discussion ... and "wiki gardeners" will encourage dialog-participants to add their ideas to Community Design pages as they emerge.

Please feel free to respond to blog posts with your ideas, and post a new blog entry if you have something to say that merits community consideration or discussion. As a part of the community design process, our on-line dialog will help to shape the evolution of Project Bamboo.