Blogging at W&L
It just occurred to me that the IT dept. may be pitching blogging to the wrong crowd if they want this stuff to take off. Blogging seems to be the kinda thing that students would gobble right up -- especially given the popularity of online face books that took off here last semester.
I know other universities setting up software so that any student can set up a blog. Why not here? Does nobody see this technological wave coming yet?
What’s your take?
Comments
If we could solve the spam problem... and if anybody in IT or UC thought it was their job... (remember, it's just me so far, with some technical help from Patrick Harris, and there's NO buy-in from UC, none at all). The University of Minnesota Library has done a wonderful job of setting up campus-wide blogging, but I don't think W&L has the requisite vision to see what it's good for.
Interested students would do better to explore the blogspace afforded by bloglines.com, or even by Microsoft --they'd have a lot better support!
Posted by: blackmer | January 11, 2005 10:18 PM