In my presentation last Tuesday, I showed you the research blog set up by Toby Dyter, who's doing a PhD at UCCA. His project involves, among other things, creating an illustrated edition of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'. On his blog, he's put up some of his sketches, reviewed books he's found interesting, linked to content that might be useful and also added personal updates. It's like a kind of public notebook.
I know that Toby finds the blog useful at certain times and not at others. I think it works for him when he's in an info/idea gathering phase. But when he needs to write something long/coherent, he doesn't bother with it.
I also read you some excerpts from 'My Blog, My Outboard Brain', an essay on blogs as research tools by the SF writer/online activist Cory Doctorow. His site's also worth a look too - as I mentioned last Tuesday, he often gives away novels and short stories online.
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