Covenant College Blog Bagpipe Article
Max finally posted the Bagipe article on the Covenant College student blog, wherein the discussion here received some mention (thanks to Kiko for the early scan/post).
A few thoughts:
1. The blog does not represent Covenant's foray into "Web 2.0". Scots Alumni did that (never mind whether or not blogging is taken as part of Web 2.0).
2. I think Jan Weaver is being inconsistent when on one hand she talks about "the people we are targeting" and then on the other states "the purpose of the blog is NOT to get more students".
3. I would like to know what Wallace means by Phil Codington being "95% of Covenant".
4. If, according to Jan, blogging is "probably not the best way to communicate", why are they doing it? Does Wallace agree with this assessment?
5. Also, a "blog" is not called a "blogspot". "Blogspot" was/is the name of a specific blogging service (called Blogger) that was bought by Google. It's just "blog".
6. Phil, I appreciate that you are "not making a sales pitch". But newsflash, your blog is being used as a salespitch.
Covenant College | By Josiah Roe | 2:29 PM
Comments
Josiah... My first response at #1 was dismay, as to me blogs were the BEGINNING and cornerstone of "Web 2.0". But, willing to be educated (even by my students, but particularly by those who saw the value of blogs very early on), I read your Wikipedia link... did you read it yourself?!? The very first exemplary technology listed as foundational to Web 2.0 in that link's Introduction section was "weblogs". Now I know from your "blog...blobspot...Blogger" comment that you recognize fine distinctions in words... but a blog is a blog, even if it is a "weblog" (the word that predates the "blended word" derived from it).
Please... "Web 2.0" is fuzzy enough as it is... let's not make it fuzzier by moving off of what started the whole thing!
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RDS
Posted by: Randy D. Smith at February 3, 2007 6:54 PM
Randy, if you read the entry closely, blogs are not included in the definition of Web 2.0. The allusion via "advocates" is not a definition. But, to keep the conversation moving along, I'll make a small modification.
More particularly: the Cod Blog hardly represents Covenant leaping into the Web 2.0 "thing". However, Scots Alumni is clear evidence that the College is finally taking the internet (and Web 2.0) seriously, and they should be commended for it.
Posted by: Josiah at February 3, 2007 7:30 PM
I'm not entirely convinced that "Web 2.0" really means anything at all - after all, it originated as a marketing slogan. Still, I don't see how blogs can be seen as anything other than Web 2.0 if Web 2.0 means a participatory Web, which is how I always understood the term.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at February 3, 2007 8:01 PM
um...what was the "no shoes uprising?" this whole thing is hilarious.
Posted by: hhd at February 3, 2007 9:06 PM
Yeah, that sort of stuff you can't make up. The no shoes uprising was a protest over the administration's rule requiring shoes inside buildings. It was pretty lame: 1) that they had to make a rule, 2) that people cared enough to protest it.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at February 5, 2007 12:27 AM
