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Thursday, September 29, 2005

BLOGOSCOPY


The rather hysterical tone prevailing in some quarters calls to mind what sociologists call “moral panic.” But the iron cage of bureaucracy is, after all, a strange thing: Today, there are timid souls who worry that a prospective colleague’s blog might be a record of torrid threesomes indulged while plotting to assassinate the dean. Tomorrow they will be retired, or laughed off campus — whereupon blogging might well become mandatory, rather than forbidden.



Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed.