When you think about it

Staking my claim to a piece of cyberspace. Somewhere to chill, to rant , to soapbox, to inform, to learn.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Encouraging Others

I'm wondering whether it would be a good idea to encourage my students to start a blog. I'd like to have them devise and maintain a team blog, so that they could share their experiences and get to know other dyslexics via the medium. I'd like them to talk to the world about their experiences. Other dyslexics could gain an insight into the work they are doing and non-dyslexics could gain an insight into what a dyslexic's life is like.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Linking my blogs 2

I've been persuaded to look again at how I link my blogs, if indeed I do. Someone whose opinions I value made the comment that if you're reading a blog about football, for example, you probably won't be interested in a blog about archaeology. The feeling my friend had was that some of the information on my collective blogs was inappropriate for just anyone to be able to read, even though I have an 'honesty and openness ' policy running; I know there was an element of concern for my privacy and safety in what was said, which I appreciated.

I really don't know how I feel about it. The point is taken, and as a consequence I have unhitched my most 'advertised' blog, the roleplaying one. Aren't blogs, by their very nature, open to 'just anyone', though ? They are 'self publishing', or else could be termed 'vanity press'.

It's a dilemma for me. Nothing that appears on the Internet is 'private'. Defending copyright is very difficult unless you have corporate resources to back you. Free speech comes at a risk and can prove costly in many ways. But blogging allows you a voice, if only a very small one, and that feels like something everyone should have a right to, even if it's not the case worldwide.

On that note, here's a link to Amnesty International.