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Justin has tagged me with a meme that seems worth doing.

Rule 1) List three reasons for your blogging.
Rule 2) List these rules.
Rule 3) Tag three others with the thread.

I confess for a moment to being thrown by rule 2, till I realised it meant include the meme in your post. (Doh!) It’s a good exercise for me right now, since I’ve spend the best part of the last week feeling totally pissed off, and my postings have been fairly sporadic as I pondered whether blogging (or most anything else) was worth bothering with. So here goes:

1. The Common Room. Fast a disappearing species in modern education the idea of a shared space to talk about whatever, listen to others talk about whatever, and somehow doing an awful lot of catching up with what others are doing in your field of interest, in cognate areas, and in their own, nothing-to-do-with yours-but-still-fascinating field of work. Those of us who get very limited opportunity to mingle with other students or with scholars can get a lot of this functionality from blogging.
2. The Pensieve.  I nick this one unashamedly from Sam. Unlike Dumbledore, it’s not that my mind is so full of thoughts that I need to put them somewhere; it’s that I’m so muddled that if I don’t write it down I spend ages going “I had an idea the other day, now what was it?”. This is especially frustrating when it seemed like a good idea. Putting it on the blog gives me a chance of finding it again, and then thinking, well, that was rubbish.
3. The Notice-board. It’s a good place to put things I want to tell others about. You know: “I found this great little video the other day: take a look at my blog.” It saves you having to remember loads of other web addresses.

So, who to tag? I tag Nick Norelli, Chris Brady and Judy Redman