Resource: Conference Article "Blogging as a Social Activity"

I found an interesting conference proceeding paper, available at http://www.darrouzet-nardi.net/bonnie/pdf/Nardi_blog_social_activity.pdf. "Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary?" Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Pages: 222 - 231, Year of Publication: 2004

Eventually, I may do an annotated bib on this article, I'm just not sure under which section.

Here is a section that is very relevant to our research.

"Thinking by writing"
"A number of informants said they used the blog to work through the writing process. Alan, a historian of science, explained that once having started a blog, it “forced” him to keep writing, a
discipline he deemed important for his work. “I am one of those people for whom writing and thinking are basically synonymous,” he observed. Having an audience stimulated or “forced” him to write and thus to think. While “thinking” might seem a solitary activity, or one not quite social, in blogging the presence of the audience and the writer’s consciousness of the audience clearly introduce the social into an individual’s thought process (as Vygotsky argued, more generally, seventy years ago [18]). "

"'Thinking by writing' embeds cognition in a social matrix in which the blog is a bridge to others for getting explicit feedback, but also a means by which to regulate one’s own behavior (writing) through connecting with an audience."

"Evan called blogging “thinking by writing." ... Writing was a social process in that he posted his thoughts to the blog where he had an audience, and continued the discussion face to face with his wife, after she had had a chance to read the blog."

"The writing and posting to an audience fed back on each other so that the thinking needed to
write the poems was “helped” by the posting of the poems."