Unusually perceptive MSM piece on blogging today in the Chicago Herald-Tribune. Will Richardson‘s mentioned prominently, as is (to my surprise and delight) WordPress. The anecdotes range from kindergarten to life-long learning. I’m encouraged to see such an evocative and comprehensive treatment that avoids all the usual hooks for an article about the blogosphere.
Perhaps some folks are starting to get the message.
Interesting to see that higher education is conspicuously absent from this particular story.
Gardner, I haven’t read the article since it’s behind a registration wall. But I’m not surprised that higher ed isn’t mentioned. I’m at SXSW and higher ed isn’t represented at all. They’re targeting k-12 and “lifelong learning.” I wonder if they think there’s no market.
Laura,
Sigh. Ouch. Grrr. I hope they’re not right, but I am a worried man in this regard.
yep, no surprise. I tried very hard to find anyone involved with higher ed at the Emerging Tech Conference just before SXSW and, outside of a few IT people who wanted to talk LMS platforms and development languages, there was NOTHING.
The irony to me is that substitute the proper agents from education into the theories of Web 2.0 design and community and you essentially have what many of us have been talking about for a few years…
This basis of shared concerns gives me some hope where otherwise I would just feel frustration…
A frustrating report, but your analysis of the irony is just spot on. Heck, the whole open source community says they learned their M.O. from higher ed. That was higher ed in an earlier day, however, and I think we’ve probably scaled too far in the industrial AND the “private good” direction to be a good model anymore.
I’ll try to feel some of that hope too. Shared concerns to keep us going until we gain more ground….