Hi all I was in the session at the conference on Friday when Mel Gregg showed some screen shots of blogs that are kept by academics and by PhD candidates. I was quite surprised at the reactions in the room - a lot of people laughed at the things that were blogged by the PhD students, and even when someone sitting near the front called out "It's not funny!" the laughter continued. I also thought that I discerned some anger - or some other strong emotion - around me (near the back). I'm doing a PhD on the process of doing a PhD, with a group of blogging candidates (myself included), so I was very interested in these reactions. Unfortunately I had to leave to catch a flight before that group of papers had finished so I couldn't ask any of the people in the room why they had reacted that way to the screenshots. I'd be really interested if anyone who was there could reflect on those reactions - either here on the list or privately if you think that might be more appropriate. Thanks in advance M-H