Comments on: Weblogs in Universities

Weblogs in Universities

hoder — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:14:02 -0800

Harvard weblogs, Warwick University Weblogs, University of Toronto blogs. Anywhere else?

By: Succa

Succa — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:16:39 -0800

University of Waterloo blogs.

By: Epenthesis

Epenthesis — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:35:59 -0800

Vassar blogs. (It's a college and not a university, strictly speaking, but what the hell.)

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:47:24 -0800

Thanks to my near-inexplicable presence on some bloggerati mailing lists, I received this very evening an email from a certain Mr Winer offering me (tongue to some extent in cheek, granted, but) a chance to sign up for a limited-seating 'once-in-a-lifetime experience,' at 'a mere $500', to attend the Harvard-sponsored BloggerCon 2003. I'm not going. $500 buys a fuck of a lot of beer.

By: jess

jess — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:00:52 -0800

$500 American dollars? Ouch. I know conferences are probably expensive to put together, but what's the point in having one that the vast majority of bloggers can't attend? It seems like for that price in that location you'd just see the same old folks you hear about going to all these events, and none of the actual "grassroots" level people who work with blogs day in and day out. [/end topic derail]

By: mgoyer

mgoyer — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:04:29 -0800

Succa, what you doing pimping those marketing blogs? ...The real blogs belong to the University of Waterloo Webring.

By: kewms

kewms — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:06:59 -0800

Harvard has blogs, but MIT has blogdex. :-)

By: Succa

Succa — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:23:09 -0800

Well yeah, Matt, but we're talking university sanctioned blogs here, are we not? I figured there'd be a little more discussion re: universities paying bloggers to be shills to prospective students.

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:48:51 -0800

$500 is at the low end for a conference. Apple charges $1500+ for WWDC, for instance. By the time you add hotel, meals, and airfare, $500 is maybe a quarter to a third of the total cost.

By: madman

madman — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 11:28:29 -0800

I couldn't care less.

By: mgoyer

mgoyer — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 11:43:37 -0800

Succa, looking at the original post, the only university sanctioned blogs seem to be Harvards and as you pointed out ours. Of course I prefer Harvard's model.

By: Succa

Succa — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:16:54 -0800

MG Hustle: Bah. I prefer to discuss the sellouts. We could talk about webrings until our teeth fall out and nothing will be said. You and I both know Waterloo is approximately 3.72 years behind the times anyway. Perhaps it is better to ask the question of why universities are sponsoring (either by payment or webhosting or whatever) blogging initiatives...for fun or for profit? What does Harvard stand to gain from Winermania? Does it act as an advertisement for Harvard Law school (not to mention UserLand) just as much as it does a helpful resource? Of course it does, but will people read it? And so on.

By: gramcracker

gramcracker — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:39:52 -0800

Stanford's.

By: KnitWit

KnitWit — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:52:41 -0800

Dartmouth

By: KF

KF — Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:24:26 -0800

Pomona's in the process of setting up sanctioned blog-space, but there's not an official URL yet...