Terra Williams and I just completed a final draft submission for Into the Blogosphere (hopefully, they will like it). Excerpt follows:

However, to use blogs merely as a tool for private journaling is to privilege our understanding of journals as private writing spaces without considering the benefits of weblogs as public writing. Whether as researchers investigating a topic, pundits championing a cause, or expressivist writers exploring their feelings about themselves and others, students can also easily share a journal, not just with a teacher, another class member, or the entire class, but potentially with any interested reader on the Internet.

And,

Here's an early work in compostion studies which positions the future of copyleft
in academic publishing. In "A Meshing of Minds: The Future of Online Research
for Print and Electronic Publication" (from Barber and Grigar's New
Worlds, New Words, 2001) Michael Day paints a new view for academic publishing
via the web as a highly collaborative medium in which scholars will share their
work more freely. In building this vision, his text examines "the ways in which the Internet and the Web
will allow research to become even more collaborative, and the possibility that
many of the researchers who collaborate will care much less about who owns ideas
and who gets credit for them than they do about making those ideas available
to the widest possible audience" (252).