Reading the article entitled "Blogging and Academic Identity" by Heide Estes who introduces the article with "Writing in different platforms has to do with matters of identity." This caught my attention, she continues to say that as a blogger she has adapted a different persona, in this case a public one that she would be comfortable with family, friends and colleagues reading. She goes on to say she uses the blog as a platform to share ideas and opinions she is uncomfortable addressing in person. I question this as if she is using her own identity and addresses an issue she may be confronted with it outside the blog page if someone read it then brought it up when they see her. She goes on to describe her blog page is in two parts, once where she wears the environmentalist hat and one where she wears the disability hat. She goes on to share that she has negotiated to transition to online teaching should she be unable to teach due to her disability. She mentions that to share about her disability is emotionally, professionally and ethically difficult for her, I respect that but on the other I respect her more for sharing it as if she should experience an episode of the disability then people would know how to react and assist her. She goes on to describe how the blog can be an effective tool in communicating thoughts and ideas, and how she can use the blog to describe living with a chronic illness/disability and address environmental issues as well, at times bring ing the two together. She continues with how using the blog has influenced her academic pursuits and aided her in different scholarly contexts. I like the comment in the conclusion how academics should spend time writing for non academics as academia is a language on it's own, to be able to write to non academics opens up a whole new audience in which to share and learn from. From the first part of the article where she describes developing a blogging identity, I see how she has separated her identity into what is described in the conclusion a public identity and a academic identity.