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Just Another Cultural Co-Op? Blogging hits the mainstream, for better or worse
sfgate.com ^ | 7/22/02 | Joyce Slaton

Posted on 07/22/2002 8:53:05 AM PDT by LibWhacker

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

San Francisco, California, USA -- When the news hit the blogging world that professors at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism plan to teach a class on blogging this fall, reaction among bloggers was dramatic, to say the least.

"Mark my words, this is going to be the Altamont of the blogging movement; they will destroy everything good about it," pouted one blogging enthusiast on Daily Pundit. Another ranted on Slashdot that it "smells like college teachers are just looking for things to make them 'Hip' and 'in the know' ... it will last a few years till the fad dies down, then it will be tossed into your Local Junior College's Adult education class catalog, right under 'Potery' [sic]."


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blogging

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