Is Ben's Blog dead?

It's about 8 on Thursday morning as I type this and due to the fact that my family is still sound asleep, I've been ditzing around trying to do really really quiet things. (Argh! I hate being a morning person sometimes!) Annnnyway, one of the quiet things I am doing is surfing the web, and upon surfing said web, I discovered that I hadn't updated Ben's Blog since last Monday. Ouch.

I have no good reason on why I haven't been updating the blog. Maybe it started out as laziness, which then turned into total forgetfulness (Lord knows I'm prone to that). I don't know. But then I started thinking: why had I been updating the blog in the first place?

As you know, this semester has seen a demise of homework assignments and a weekly test. We've stayed remarkably on schedule (every single class is EXACTLY where it needs to be), so the syllabus does a fine job of letting us know what we're doing and what we've done. Honestly, I'm not so sure many of you are even reading this anymore (and why would you -- it's not like you need to see what homework you've missed or find out when a test date is). Is Ben's Blog even relevant anymore?

I've had some ideas brewing around in my mind for Ben's Blog and I think I may try them out over the next few weeks. The main thing I'm thinking of is killing the daily "classroom summarization" and replacing it with periodic "topics" as kind of an extension of the classroom. This won't be daily, obviously. And, from time-to-time, I'll post up some extra credit possibilities based on those topics. And, should I include those topics on upcoming tests?

As of this moment, I think I'm going to suspend the daily summaries aspect of this blog -- at least temporarily. I'll also be spending some very brief classtime talking about it too.

Please comment on this post, if you see it, and tell me what you think, just to let me know how many of you are reading.

Thanks for reading, guys! --ben.