Blogging - what are we using it for

I picked this post up from the ICT in English NZ site. Konrad Glogowski is completing his PhD thesis on the use of blogging communities in the classroom. There are some interesting discussion points here on children reflecting on the use of blogs.
As the class blog is now up and running effectively, I am now wanting to work on the quality of children's responses. In order to get meaningful responses, we need to think carefully about the quality of the blog post itself. What is the intention of the post? - is it to share with parents about topics covered, give children futher opportunities to revise, seek feedback on work?
With writing for example, if children are expecting responses they need to be sharing their learning goal to encourage comments and responses that are valid to the children's learning.
I'm taking it all in small steps, but I now want children to be judging the quality of the blog postings on the quality of the responses we get not on the number of comments we received. I am also wanting to encourage parents to be using the blog more often too, making it more of a learning community. Some of the responses we have had to our inquiry questions have been great - links to websites that have provided children with answers to their action questions.
Some great stuff on Konrad Glogowski's blog, I also enjoyed the June 08 entry on finding music to accompany books and the lack of need for evaluation!