tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4867585704483903606.post6958101012149267302..comments2010-09-05T13:23:36.601+02:00Comments on ESSWE Newsletter: Using this blogMark Sedgwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11697551716540483823noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4867585704483903606.post-89847486498401002902007-10-08T16:06:00.000+02:002007-10-08T16:06:00.000+02:00Courage!PSThe logic behind the posting rules is th...Courage!<BR/><BR/>PS<BR/><BR/>The logic behind the posting rules is that this is a Newsletter that just LOOKS like a blog, not a real blog. So we're applying, slightly modified, the system used for the Newsletter. Initially, experimentally.Mark Sedgwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11697551716540483823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4867585704483903606.post-74898745903216157742007-10-08T14:18:00.000+02:002007-10-08T14:18:00.000+02:00Thanks.Sadly the stuff was mistakenly erased as i ...Thanks.Sadly the stuff was mistakenly erased as i ws trying to place in Prof.Goodrick-Clarke's email.I will summon courage and start again since I had expanded the one line posting.Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepojuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09960684003287695951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4867585704483903606.post-61289525297162019602007-10-08T14:11:00.000+02:002007-10-08T14:11:00.000+02:00Thanks for your input, IFAstudent. We'll reevaluat...Thanks for your input, IFAstudent. We'll reevaluate all this after the blog has been running for a while. Meanwhile, why not just email me the posting you have in mind & see how it goes?Mark Sedgwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11697551716540483823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4867585704483903606.post-27236738511868025232007-10-08T13:29:00.000+02:002007-10-08T13:29:00.000+02:00Impressive vision and execution. Are the modalitie...Impressive vision and execution. Are the modalities for posting not too cumbersome,though? First, one has to be a member of ESSWE to even read the blog. Then you have to ask a board member to vet and possibly edit your posting, which they may choose or not choose to publish. It seems to me that these modalities are likely to be frustrating to the spontaneity that is central to the use of the internet and blogs in particular. <BR/>Having passed through the gate of becoming an ESSWE member in the first place, what really are we protecting in insisting on managing the system like a physical classroom where hierarchy and authority are so important? By the time one goes through all the necessary steps in one’s mind, one might consider it too much trouble to bother even trying to post, particularly in this age when speed of communication is the norm. <BR/>Right now, I would like to make a one line posting drawing attention to Terry Eagleton in the London Review of Books on Dawkin's critique of religion. That will have to be routed through the same channels of evaluation. Let’s say I have such ideas every day or every other day, spending so much time online. I go through the same process? <BR/>I suggest we make the blog available to the public to read and make comments but only ESSWE members should post and do so freely. The field should be better known to those who are uninformed about it as a scholarly discipline. That’s why I recommend availability to the public for reading and commentary. Quality of postings can be kept high by letting only ESSWE members post.Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepojuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09960684003287695951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4867585704483903606.post-77340438157823827312007-09-25T16:49:00.000+02:002007-09-25T16:49:00.000+02:00Members of the board made various comments while t...Members of the board made various comments while this blog was being tested that enabled me to make several improvements. Thanks to all! Those comments have now been removed.Mark Sedgwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11697551716540483823noreply@blogger.com