• Can be seen as a commonplace book or expert's notebook.
• Through blog-as-filter concept, acts as a growing webliography of online resources.
• Faster dissemination of knowledge than print publication cycle.
• Encourages an expanded dialogue and building on knowledge quicker than through traditional publication cycles.
• Establishes an early publishing record for the origination of ideas.
• Opens discipline-specific discourse to other disciplines, inviting interdisciplinary
  knowledge making.
• Opens the academic knowledge making process to the public.
• Expands range of material online for a particular subject area, creating a public resource for those that might have limited or no access to traditional scholarly publications.
• Useful for soliciting research assistance from fellow scholars and practitioners.
• Useful as source material for producing more formal writing for peer-reviewed
  publication.
• Can build ethos as a researcher and scholar.
• Opportunity for entrance into network within a discipline for new scholars.
• Facilitates and makes more apparent the emergence of new fields of study.
• Can stimulate discussion on professional and social issues outside of a scholar's
  major research interest, discussion which may contribute to social change.
• Allows practioners who might not be involved in peer-reviewed scholarly
  publishing to enter discussion and contribute to knowledge development.

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