At the AoIR conference in Brisbane a group (well, three is a small group!) of us PhD students met with the graduate student representative on the AoIR board, Ted Coopman. One of the things that was suggested at that meeting was that some kind of central place be set up with a list of the blogs of graduate student members of the Association - a blog ring, I guess, although it could be as simple as a click able listing of all the sites with some details about their owners and their research interests. I'm not sure if there's somewhere this could be done on the Association website, or whether one of us should just take the initiative and call for addresses to create this page and stick it somewhere. I'm happy to have a go at designing a button we could have on our sites - it could link to this (as yet uncreated) list if we decided not to have a 'proper' blogring or it could be the blogring button. The advantage to this would be that this could be a kick start to forming a community of common interest - many of us are already linking to each other and have each other on RSS feeds, but this would create a quick way to connect with and for new student members. Also, at the PhD colloquium many PhD presenters found the input from faculty to be really helpful, especially as we're all working in such a multi-disciplinary and 'out there' academic area and many have supervisors with more traditional research experience. Having our blogs linked would mean that we could bring up issues we were concerned about for discussion among a wider audience that has a deeper understanding of the issues of our research areas than many of the people we are in face-to-face contact with. What do people think? Mary-Helen __ Educational Developer Flexible Online Learning Team USyd eLearning Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor, Teaching and Learning