Extending learning practices

I seem to be the sprinter in terms of blogging. I will have a time when it is meaningful for me and other times when it is not. In conversation with a colleague I have started to see that my blog is not a tool within my toolkit for my personal learning network. I use it as part of projects or ways to connect for a specific time frame. This is very similar to what many classroom teachers use blogging for. You will see blogs on 2008 Newbury Project or Online Discussion with NJ. These are single projects that allows you to be public with posts and comments but end when the project is over. Much as this blog just keeps going even though I am inconsistent, I would recommend teachers to keep a blog that allows these projects to develop history and become an ongoing location.
So this then asks the question am I truly an edublogger? Well the same colleague mentioned early (he's worth reading at his blog) mentioned his way of thinking about this. If you read blogs, you are a viewer. If you consistantly comment or write on blogs than you are a blogger. He sees that this idea really pushes our concept of the network being created within the blogosphere. It is not that you need to be the one with great ideas, but rather you need to engage with the community talking about issues in educational technology.
So the question is "Are you extending your practice by engaging with the conversation?" You don't have to keep posting, but I would challenge readers that you are not truly in a learning network if you are only reading...even if you are indeed coming away with good ideas. You need to engage to truly be developing that learning network.
Keep exploring....