blog about interdisciplinarity

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one week of multidisciplinary project

We are together, face to face, to discuss this two years activity. Some concusions have been drawn.

We started our blog in 2004 as we were fascinated by the blog phenomenon, we believed that it could help us two authors to keep our scientific and personal dialog alive even if we live at the south most and north most extremes of Europe. In addition to blogging, we have used actively emails and chat programs like skype.

Since 2004 the blogosphere has exploded. As of December 2006, Technorati indexes over 55 million weblogs. When we started to talk about our blog to our colleagues and friends, it happened that we were not understood. At the time of writing academia has accepted blogs as research and education tool.

We realize that when we started we wanted to shape the content of our blog by imposing structure and by inviting or interviewing people. This because we were inspired by the way we were used to work as researchers. The blogosphere has different rules.

In the blogosphere one gives feedback's to other in a volunteer manner. In the blogosphere we are proud when somebody visit our blog and we are grateful to them who visit us in a way we deserve them a visit.

We have learned a lot in the process of posing questions to our colleagues and even trying to convince them to participate to our blog. At the time of writing, we have changed our focus from trying to convince people who are outside the blogosphere, to find, inside the blogosphere, academic researchers that, like us, use blogs as a research tool, further to conferences, journals, and books. Blogs do not only belong to the future but also to the present of academia.

What we have learned is that the blog is a very useful tool to share information, and this work can provide hints to those intending to use blogs as a support for his/her courses and have an interactive feedback with students.