Stephen Straker wrote: [snip]
Why should Harvard be so interested in blogs?
People at Hahvahd are committed to finding each other particularly interesting, wouldn't you say?
I'm sure this has always been true, but I'd think Friday afternoon sherry in the Departmental office is more appealing and less time consuming than Friday afternoon blogging....
Or is Harvard talking about researchers maintaining online synoptic directories of their ongoing research, for reference by other researchers and indexing/analysis by web search engines? That might be very useful.
Yes, but it's very bad for your patents pending ...
Keeping a blog might also interfere with just getting on
with your work. We haven't reached the day when keeping a
blog IS your work <--- FW TOPIC HERE.
Whose work? I keep reading that even "people" like Salon.com have trouble getting people to pay for web content. Or do you mean that a person who lives on unearned income chooses to spend his or her time writing a blog, and that the blog is, in that slightly unusual sense, their work?
... Winer predicts that blogging will have a *profound effect on education*, and says: "I've already gotten e-mail from tons of educational institutions that want to be up on what we're doing."
Back around 1983, I had the idea of all the school assignments being oriented toward the student building a *portfolio* of their accomplishments. I called it: "Not destined for the trash can". Each assignment the student did, they would think if it could improve upon and replace (etc.) something already in the portfolio. The student would, as a part of their studies, study the portfolio process and its social role....
I thought that was a good idea (I still do). But I don't see it as much like blogging. Rather, now that the student can put their portfolio on the Internet, it would be: "Here is what I have accomplished and am proud of, if you want to see who I am and what I can do" (the connection to a resume or any kind of admission application should be obvious...).
I sure did not have anything to show for myself when I graduated from high school or college.
Sounds like hype - after all, this is the salesman speaking.
Anybody know of exemplary blogs to visit?
I'll be interested, too.
And I will even try to give "technical" thoughts about them, as well as substantive critique of the content.
The medium is the co-message
(sort-of Marchall McLuhan)\brad mccormick
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