What makes a blog work?

In the academic setting, what I think makes a blog work is the posting of news and information. As an elementary school librarian, I was especially impressed with Cold Spring Elementary School Library in California.

The librarian, Janet Pedersen, updates her blog every week, discussing what each grade level did in the library, discussing favorite titles and displaying pictures of students. Our school district is very strict about putting student’s pictures “out there”. I doubt I would be allowed to do this. But I do want to start a blog. I used to publish a monthly news letter, this would be much easier. I also was impressed with the page layout of this blog, easy to read and user friendly. My goal is to start a book discussion blog with my students.