Barclay Barrios has an interesting website that points to the growing use of blogs in the composition classroom, particularly around 2003. He also has a few neat resources.
http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/barrios/blogs/index.html
An edited collection of essays on blogging and writing is available and very interesting. It is
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/
There are a lot of possibilities for annotation. (Maybe under teaching literacy with technology?) One I like is Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs Kevin Brooks, Cindy Nichols, and Sybil Priebe, North Dakota State University
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/remediation_genre.html
Apparently, Blood has been an influential force in writing about blogging. She offers some historical information.
Blood, Rebecca. "Weblogs: A History and Perspective", Rebecca's Pocket. 07 September 2000. 25 October 2006. http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
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Google scholar is a great tool for finding related work. For example, if you enter blogging as your search term:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=blogging&btnG=Search
Some of the results are those you already listed, others are articles you may find useful.
Nicole - Thanks for checking out our research blog and for giving some research tips! I look forward to talking with you more about using blogging in the classroom.
p.s. Sabatino - Nicole is my sister and is a computer science professor at Winona State.
Nicole --
Nice to "meet" you. Thanks for your input...we'll take as much as we can get.
Ahhh...blogs as bridges....creating learning communities...exciting stuff.
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