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The Blogs That Ate My Campus
Image by Looking For Fish Tacos At ELI 2006
It sounds easy. "Let’s offer blogs to our community." But there are hazards that lurk beneath the groovy social software veneer:
* Spammers never sleep
* Workload for training and support – many users will have only a vague idea how to use these tools. Imagine the risks with students required to maintain weblogs.
* Server and application maintenance – many IT units in academic institutions have little understanding or interest in sustaining tools such as these.
Key questions:
* What are the benefits of providing a blog service, when anyone can easily get their own blog elsewhere?
* Could a school offer a weblog service without hosting? What other services would be needed?
* What are the appropriate expectations of users of these services? What can reasonably be provided to them?
* Just how amenable is the culture of the academy to blogging and other social software practices?
* Are there special challenges in dealing with (ahem) ‘academic temperaments’ and technology? (Hint: you better believe it!)
Tools and Issues With Supporting
* Giving a Blog – a guide to providing blogs (James Farmer)
* University Weblogging: Where, With What System (and How Fast)? (Spike Hall’s RU Weblog)- array of colleges providing hosting at the blogware platforms
* Checking Out Other University’s Blog Hosting Services by Jerry Smith, Case University
* Public and Private Course Blogs (Digital Digs)
* Efforts to make blogs more versatile include Structured Blogging, somewhat related to the larger issue of microformats
* Look out for the Law! See the EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
* Standards and Practices for Staff Blogs (News-Record.com)
Better Blogging..
* Lifehacker’s guide to weblog comments practicalt tips for using weblog comments
* Having a hard time writing? See Battling Bloggers Block (caveat emptor the web site is about "blogging for money") Or see 10 Killer Post Idea
Is Blogging A Great Idea or a Bad One?
* Can it ruin your chance of that plum teaching job? Pseudonymous Ivan Tribble wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education Bloggers Need Not Apply
* Why not more scholarly bloggers? by Alex Halavais
* The academic contributions of blogging? (Crooked Timber)
* Blogscholars? (History News Network)
* Blogging Prof Fails To Heed His Own Advice New York Sun
* So Friday was a pretty bad day…., Scholar/Blogger Daniel Drezner is denied tenure. Because of the blog? Could be…
Institutions Hosting Blogs
* Weblogs at University of Calgary
* Weblogs@UPEI (Price Eduward Island) and Weblogs@Holland College
* UThink: Blogs at University of Minnesota Libraries
* Weblogs at Harvard Law is one of the oldest university hosted blogs (Manila)
* Blog@Case Case University
* Reedie Jounrals- Blogs for every students at Reed College
* EduBlogs (free hosting for educators) and UniBlogs (free hosting for students)
* CALI Classcaster
* Weblogs@UBC
See more examples and resources in the blog supporting tag stream.
Image Credits: Mock-up of SciFi book cover created by Alan Levine, derived from my own flickr image from Garden of the Gods (Colorado) and an old Strata3D rendered image
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