UoL Network: Proving that no matter how busy I am there’s always time for coffee
Alan Cann has floated the idea of creating a UoL blogging network on JayJay’s weblog. Now he’s suggesting along with Chris (whose URL I’d lost) we set up a UoL blogging network. I think it’s a good idea, or at least I heard coffee mentioned which is similar.
To some extent a unified blog feed could augment the expert’s list on the UoL website. For instance if I put up a post saying that 10,000 BC might be inaccurate (metal? — there’s a reason why we call it the Stone Age). Then it could go into a feed along with Alan on the the latest superbug etc. and then you have series of rentaquotes. The downside with this is that we wouldn’t be clearing blog posts with university authorities so I suspect you’d want to limit the feed to staff only.
If you’re a UoL blogger you may want to leave a comment on Alan’s post at SOTI.
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The only way I’d ever be interested in participating in any such network would be if it was completely outside of UoL “control”, which is not to say that the University couldn’t have some input into it.
I think the concept has enormous potential for the University, but it’s very different from the way things have been “managed” historically. I hope we can pull something together.
I agree — in the same with blogs and journalism need each other in the current climate — the university and blogs can work the same way.
The university (as an institution) needs not to get involved, officialising “the network” — they can go for it if they want in their own way — personally, I would feel like it would as cringe worthy as watching video bloggers on the bbc website, editorial arranged “comments” on what the bbc considers newsworthy that day. Students film earthquake anybody?
Meh.
Completely removes the dynamic that blogging and web 2.0 applications can bring to knowledge sharing.
Plus, I would never get a word in for I am an unknown pleb (within that context) and would have to be conditioned and vetted before they let me anywhere near them…
This is why it is so exciting!
Yup. The marketing potential for the Univerity is emormous — if they get it right. OTOH, if they get it wrong (or ignore the opportunity), the downside is corespondingly enormous.