The Times reports today on a movement to nurture civility in the blogosphere with a “blogger code of conduct.” You can follow the conversation, led by Tim O’Reilly (who:”Web 2.0″ as Bernard Baruch:”Cold War”) and Jimmy Wales (who founded Wikipedia).
I like this. Discursive chaos is great and all, but ultimately blogs are more useful, in my opinion, when directed by a purpose and an administrator to articulate and enforce the rules. This goes triple for class sites. Then again, that’s just good teaching.
Anyway, I’m not sure much will evolve from this effort, which seems intended to empower milquetoast administrators to administer rather than to allow their sites to devolve into nastiness. Just thought that it was something to note in advance of our Symposium.
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