Academic Blogging In the past few years, blogging has become something of a national pastime, and academics are becoming a core group using blogs for personal and professional reasons. Yet even though many people embrace blogging, many others have no idea what it is or why anyone would do it. In this issue of Lore, we explore the role that blogging plays for academics both in and out of the classroom.      On the Subject of Blogs      Laura C. Berry, Associate Professor, University of Arizona      "I Don't Really Want to Go into Personal Things in This Blog": Risking Connection through Blogging      Carlton Clark, Professor, Collin County Community College      How I Became an Academic Who Blogs      Billy Clark, Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University, London      Knit Blogging: Considering an Online Community      Amy E. Earhart, Lecturer and Coordinator of Instructional Technology, Texas A&M University      Trying It On for Size      Nels P. Highberg, Assistant Professor, University of Hartford      The Bane of the President's Existence      Dennis G. Jerz, Associate Professor, Seton Hill University      I Blog, Therefore I Am      Angelina Karpovich, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wales, Aberystwyth      Aboard the Ideological Hot Air Balloon      Nicole Converse Livengood, Ph.D. Candidate, Purdue University      Blogging from the Bottom: A Cautionary Tale      Eric Mason, Ph.D. Candidate, University of South Florida      Blogging Back to the Basics      Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, Assistant Professor, Lincoln University, St. Louis, MO      Between Work and Play: Blogging and Community Knowledge-Making      Clancy Ratliff, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota      Practicing What We Teach: Collaborative Writing and Teaching Teachers to Blog      Cathlena Martin, Ph.D. Candidate, and Laurie Taylor, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Florida      Having a BALL with Blog-Assisted Language Learning      Jason Ward, Instructor, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates