{"id":509,"date":"2004-11-23T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T17:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/23\/conflicted-about-the-edublog-weblog-awards\/"},"modified":"2004-11-23T09:25:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T17:25:35","slug":"conflicted-about-the-edublog-weblog-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/23\/conflicted-about-the-edublog-weblog-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflicted about the Edublog Weblog Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/incsub.org\/awards\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n

James Farmer has taken up the challenge and created a site to vote for the Inaugural Edublogs Awards. I fell pretty conflicted about this:<\/p>\n

– on the one hand, it’s great to recognize excellence and all of the hard work some folks have put in.<\/p>\n

– on the other hand, this feels somewhat antithetical to the sense of collaborative community that some feel is emerging through the blogosphere. I placed a few votes, but as I did so I kept feeling I was highlighting one piece of good work at the expense of another. Also, this feels like it is tapping into a part of the blogosphere I’m really less interested in – people reinforcing their meatspace connections, status and networks through their blogs. Clearly, that’s inevitable, but it rubs me the wrong way, and it feels against the original spirit of ‘meritocracy’ on which the internet was built.<\/p>\n

I think I’ve placed all the votes I’m going to place, and have now decided to mostly ignore this. The potential for harm is greater than the potential for good in this sort of thing. There are plenty other ways to indicate what you like in the blogosphere, indeed the ‘blogosphere’ is in some ways simply an emergent conversation that displays an interconnection of p\/references. – SWL<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/incsub.org\/awards\/index.php James Farmer has taken up the challenge and created a site to vote for the Inaugural Edublogs Awards. I fell pretty conflicted about this: – on the one hand, it’s great to recognize excellence and all of the hard work some folks have put in. – on the other hand, this feels somewhat antithetical … Continue reading “Conflicted about the Edublog Weblog Awards”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}