It gives old Gav some breathing space and a chance to filter out any negative comment.

Can this be the same Gav who has been blogging since 2002 finally adopting some of the tactics used by the Chinese rulers to keep their peasants at bay. Surely not.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the items which Gav and Anto are putting up as headline pieces are so threadbare and indefensible that the fans who used to enjoy this type of thing are getting bored and are not leaping to his defence anymore.

Anyway its really sad to see this great Blogger adopt such extreme tactics to prevent people responding to his views.

Censorship, they say is the last refuge of the vanquished.

It does not auger well for the street cred of this famed Blogger.

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I’m the one responsible for creating the blogs-for-students
facility to which Damien alluded above. It’s been in place
at UCC since last October. Alas, I’d have to admit that
it wasn’t part of any Grand Plan – it just happened to be a
free ‘added extra’ in a mail system called Surgemail that
I installed back then. I merely activated the feature and
waited to see how things would pan out. I didn’t publicise
it all that much either, apart from making mention of it in
passing in one or two mailshots to the students.

(Somebody above dropped the c-word (censorship) – I did in
fact point out to students that all content is covered by
the UCC AUP but that otherwise they’re free to experiment
with the feature as they please! Seems not unreasonable)

So far only a few students have used this particular blogging
tool – possibly because those ‘in the know’ about WebLogging
would be aware of far, far better blogging tools & sites -
and those uninterested may not have the spare time anyway…

The abovementioned Surgemail has several add-ons, of which,
being realistic, I think the calendar tool is the one most
likely to be of PRACTICAL, day-to-day use to students,
far more so than the Blog feature.

Nevertheless, I hope I don’t come across as being a wee bit
negative about blogging – in fact I’m all for anything that
‘hones’ inter-personal communication & writing skills and
even more so if it helps, as somebody said above, in
“shareing knowledge with a worldwide audience”.
(Hmmm, how come you don’t hear the term Global Village
being bandied about quite so much any more?)

IMHO, Blogging is Great – for those with the spare time

Trouble is, one has to be conscious of the demands on
students time and of the difficulty that they experience
in finding the hours (& spare workstations!) to fit in blogs,
wikis, personal email, mailing lists, instant messaging,
and so on.

I guess what we now have is a sort of technological free
market – with the result that individual students opt for
a minimal – and unpredictable – combination of what is
easiest to use, what’s enjoyable to use (bebo?), what’s
fashionable with their pals (bebo!), what’s good for
a spot of chatting-up (any of the IM tools and
of course Bebo!) and last but maybe not least,
what’s useful to them academically.

Should ‘corporate-entity-UCC’ be pushing the blog concept?
I honestly don’t know. Is it something that will stand
the test of time or will blogs & wikis converge?
I don’t know. The crystal ball looks very cloudy
from where I’m sitting

As an example, back in 1994 I think we were the first of
the dot ie universities to provide email accounts for EVERY
registered student on campus. Result: by the end of that
academic year there were only about 1K of them actually
accessing their accounts more than once-weekly and roughly
only 3K at least once in total during that entire year.
Poor salesmanship on our part? Perhaps – but more than
likely it was simply Right tool, Wrong timing!

Admittedly, email HAS stood the test of time ever since then.
However, try a Google search for “EMail is for Old People”
and you’ll find lots of comments going back over two years
that provides lots of food for thought on that front!
Will some pundit claim before long that “Blogging’s for Oldies?”
Who knows? Not I anway.

BTW: Read about SurgeBlog at http://netwinsite.com/surgeblog

Regards
John Murphy

“I used to have a link here for my ‘real’ blog that’s been up and running over a year but someone from my class used material from it to cause trouble among my classmates so I deleted it…so… NOTHING TO SEE HERE…sorry. “