Reflecting upon yesterday’s symposium I found some good points came out of it, in particular the discussions around this week’s reading. Expanding on the idea of the hub, Adrian explained that particular blog posts become hubs but you never know which ones will become the hubs. This is something that is not pre-determined, they simply emerge. So what makes people decide that they want to link to a particular blog? What makes that one popular? Is it trust, authority, enjoyment, relevance, the fact they disagree with what has been discussed? Maybe it’s some or a bit of all of these things. Then we could look at websites, this may be graded differently by people depending on the nature of particular websites. As Adrian mentioned educational websites will most likely be held in higher regard than others.