Thank you for all the references to additional tools, and also for the tips on encouraging later adopters. Collectively, these responses have highlighted for me one of the underlying assumptions that early adopters often make: A new medium will be embraced when 1) it significantly increases convenience, and/or 2) the available content is highly desirable. In my experience, however, many people are skeptical of new media regardless of content and convenience. They furthermore assume that anything they really need to know will be available through established channels. They expect content providers to come to them. And of course, providers do have an interest in being accessible to their intended audience. One reason to use a blog, in my opinion, is that it will generate an RSS feed. But most of the faculty I have worked with really do not care about feeds because they are imagining (correctly) that most of their intended audience will not know what to do with a feed, either. They become more interested when they can put a button in their sidebar that will let visitors subscribe to the feed by email. At some point, some of these folks may decide to skip the email mediation and start using aggregator. And even if some of them never make the switch, I'm glad to have found a way for them to participate.