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May 15, 2003
It's Not All About Weblogs. Really.
David Carraher suggests ways shortcomings of education could be addressed through weblogging technologies.
Oops. Unintentionally posted the draft of this post before I finished writing. (Hence the first comment -- no, it wasn't a test. Edit notice: I have now deleted the first half-sentence of my comments to avoid further confusion.
Maybe I'll get around to commenting in detail on Carraher's post later, but here's the short version: Another example (grrrr) of the frustrating "Everything is a weblog and weblogs are everything" mentality!! The benefits Carraher talks about in his first point are primarily benefits of writing, not weblogs, and don't have to rely on technology any more complex than a pen and paper to achieve.
Posted May 15, 2003 07:02 PM
Comments
Is this a test? I didn't know, no one told me so I didn't study. Let me try; constraints and firewalls. Do I win a prize?
Comments by bogie . Posted May 16, 2003 07:14 AM
Be patient. Things are evolving. People are figuring things out. Some of them will try to do things with these new tools that seem, and may turn out to be, awkward and stupid. Some of the things they try will turn out to be insightful and brilliant. Some will just turn out to be laughable. But we all have a lot of trying out to get through first.
Personally, I don't think weblogs are everything, and vice-versa. But weblogs and RSS will put more arrows in our quivers, to be used on the right occasions. For the moment, we haven't totally figured out what those occasions are.
There were probably a lot of serious folks who thought Fleming was a fool for messing around with bread mold. You know there were a lot of people with a lot of degrees who knew better when Salk was working on the polio vaccine -- they were certain he was going to kill or cripple a lot of children. But things got better.
For the moment, I trust that nobody does anything for no good reason -- it always seems like a good idea at the time. Fortunately, sometimes it was.
Comments by Bill Brandon . Posted May 16, 2003 01:53 PM