It's a Mad Mad Mad World of Webloggers (at Harvard)
Today's Newscan posted feedback from Julian C. Dunn (no weblog) to a previous Newscan post on Dave's Harvard Blogs initiative
"...what is Harvard thinking? Someone there has been blinded by the hype of weblogs, and failed to realize that the premise of weblogs is the publication of one's diary entries publicly. To suggest that blogging is a skill as valuable and basic as word processing or e-mail is ludicrous."
Obviously Julian doesn't get it. Weblogging is writing just the same as word processing or e-mail is writing. So that makes it as valuable as them. You have to get your point across, whether your point is a personal expression of feelings and emotions or whether your point is a technical assessment of a new technology. The key to weblogs IMHO is that it makes writing for the web as easy as writing an email and more important than a word processing document in that it gets posted to the web for searching and archival.
OK, I'll actually say it (and now I'm in the personal emotion publishing mode), Julian probably doesn't have anything interesting to say to anyone outside of those folks that he can see with his own eyes. No desire to get feedback from anyone other than those who already know what he thinks. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
10:14:55 AM 
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