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Sorry Courtney

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I got this message late Friday afternoon:

I am a college student at Syracuse University. I am writing an article about weblogs. I understand you do a bit of “blogging” yourself. I would love to ask you a few questions about weblogging. Unfortunately, my deadline is tonight by midnight. I’d appreciate your help and eagerly await your response..

what are the benefits of weblogging? i’ve talked to a handful of colleges that are using current students to write weblogs. Admissions are using the weblogs to attract prospective students. do you think this will become a trend? have you heard anything about this? what do you think are the cons of blogging?

I guess I am not the only person who works up to the deadlines. The best I could do is dash off some quick thoughts likely too late for Courtney’s deadline (is there a lesson there, Court?) especially for such broad open questions. How would you reply?

My response follow….

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Trackback / Sharebacks: Give These Packages Some Lovin’

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We’ve promoted many different times (see the Breezed NMC Oct 2003 presentation) the notion that weblog Trackback technology provides a simple, and working now, method to connect descriptions of usage of learning objects stored in “thingamotories” (or “repositories if you like). Or, as we deemed it Learning Object Reuse Acknowledgment (LORA). Yet. while well received, […]

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Housecleaning the Blogroll

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There was dust and some missing pieces to my sidebar list of blogs I read regularly– which I spit out from Bloglines using their JavaScript insert to list on the sidebar of CDB. A number of old favorites have gone quiet, and sorry, but have slipped off my radar, quite a few I added, especially […]

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MT Upgrade Dance (2.6 to 3.1) Steps… Advice?

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Appearances, aside, I copy others quite often… and reading Scott’s note on successful migration from MovableTYpe 2.x to 3.1, I am pondering dragging the CogDog up a notch. I’d resisted for a while because (a) The blog is doing fine as as; and (b) I have about 12 MT blogs on 3 different servers and […]

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Take the Spam Filtering Survey

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I am not sure what he is doing with the results, but it looks like John Graham-Cumming is collecting data on people’s attitudes and annoyances with e-mail spam– check out the Spam Filtering Survey: This survey will lead you through a number of pages asking about you, your attitude towards spam and spam filtering, your […]

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Tufte Tour

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Edward Tufte‘s short course “Presenting Data and Information” is coming to town in late January… can anyone who has attended one of these or knows a friend who has (or a second cousin of their mother-in-law’s dentist) let me know if it is worth it? Or should I just buy the t-shirt?

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I Spent All Afternoon Writing One E-Mail Message

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No, I did not have writers block or a novel to compose. Actually the email question was not even mine, but written to be sent under someone else’s name. Could this be Alan’s Secret Neutron Bomb that would eviscerate spammers? Nahhhh, ya must be dreamin’. Now, these are some messages that get generated from our […]

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Arizona… Believe It Or Not

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flickr foto Arizona… Believe It Or Notavailable on my flickr December 4, 2004 and it is snowing up at our cabin in Strawberry, Arizona. Yes, believe it or not, Arizona is not just shifting sands of Arabian desert, certainly not here at 5600 elevation. Just returned from a delightful extended weekend at our cabin, and […]