http://mikecaulfield.com/2008/04/21/the-meaningless-homepage/ edupunk, elearning, socialware, rhetoric, discourse analysis, instructional technology, keene nh, other stuff Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:52:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://mikecaulfield.com/2008/04/21/the-meaningless-homepage/#comment-769 Mike Fri, 09 May 2008 15:11:50 +0000 http://mikecaulfield.com/2008/04/21/the-meaningless-homepage/#comment-769 I agree -- there's a customer service mission in these pages that is (and should be) pretty dominant. And there is always that tension between the static encyclopedic approach and the dynamic journalistic approach... I agree — there’s a customer service mission in these pages that is (and should be) pretty dominant. And there is always that tension between the static encyclopedic approach and the dynamic journalistic approach…

]]> http://mikecaulfield.com/2008/04/21/the-meaningless-homepage/#comment-753 Tracy Mendham Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:07:04 +0000 http://mikecaulfield.com/2008/04/21/the-meaningless-homepage/#comment-753 Now that most universities have finally progressed to the point of maintaining organized, aesthetically pleasing and comprehensive archives of important information on their websites, they are no longer flavor of the month. I hope that schools will keep using their .edu's as repositories of static documents and as jumping-off points for the more exciting Web 2.0 stuff. I know my academic (academics.keene.edu) website, which I was so proud of two years ago, doesn't really seem worth my time to update anymore--my blog on Keeneweb is so much easier to post to, and then there's my Twitter account, and my Ning network, and old classmates and colleagues looking for me seem to do so increasingly through Facebook... Still, so much social media is ephemera, and I value content that stays put as well. Now that most universities have finally progressed to the point of maintaining organized, aesthetically pleasing and comprehensive archives of important information on their websites, they are no longer flavor of the month. I hope that schools will keep using their .edu’s as repositories of static documents and as jumping-off points for the more exciting Web 2.0 stuff.
I know my academic (academics.keene.edu) website, which I was so proud of two years ago, doesn’t really seem worth my time to update anymore–my blog on Keeneweb is so much easier to post to, and then there’s my Twitter account, and my Ning network, and old classmates and colleagues looking for me seem to do so increasingly through Facebook…
Still, so much social media is ephemera, and I value content that stays put as well.

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