This blog is work for my Master's degree. Honest.

At the beginning of our Information Resources and Information Literacy module, we were told by our lecturers, "start a blog, join Facebook, go on Second Life". Apparently all this Web 2.0 business is highly significant in the world of Information Studies and anyone who's anyone has to keep up to date with current developments. To a load of 20-or-30-something-year-old students, however, blogs, Facebook, Second Life and the like are not academic work, they're pissing about on the internet, which is generally what you do when you're avoiding academic work. But who are we to argue with our lecturers?