Notes and Jottings

“Pay attention”:http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/archives/000416.html, “Netsoc”:http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/ committee. You want to offer students “blogging facilities”:http://blogs.netsoc.tcd.ie/ next year? It takes more than offering facilities for it to work. They have to start to realise how it works, why it’s good, how to link to each other and other things on the Internet, how to discuss things across weblog boundaries.

Basically, you need people who can lead the way as “spotlight weblogs” which will be of interest to people. Better yet, recruit people who aren’t completely geeky and who talk about semantics and RDF and how RTTI is something icky that really shouldn’t be used in the context of Java (the VM doesn’t know what a type is!), and how LISP doesn’t rule the world, but should.

Get someone who travels extensively, somebody who reports on the weekly doings of the “SVdP Society”:http://www.csc.tcd.ie/~vdepaul/ —after all this, you may be on to something. Promote the works of people who write good stuff. Automate linkrolling and link to the most highly linked people from a prominent place.

Become a place where the life of college weaves form and substance and builds to something glorious. Show that networks link people together. Make it happen.

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