College Blocks Blog Critical Of Chancellor; Now That Blog Is Mainstream News
from the nice-work! dept
Witty Nickname writes "A new Chancellor was selected to lead a Community College District in northern Harris County, Texas. A critical blog was set up to blast the new Chancellor, who quickly had IT block it on all campus computers. As these things always do, it backfired. The college was sued, forced to unblock the blog, and thanks to the media attention, now everyone in Houston knows about the blog." Didn't quite work the way he expected, huh? One would imagine that the blog got barely any traffic prior to this. Perhaps ignoring it would have been a better option.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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home sweet home
Anyways, the staff there are idiots too. But, the campus is pretty.
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They Should Learn
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That is the lazy way
Placing a link to the source article without a direct link to the person/place/thing in question is lazy and un-professional.
Here the blog itself is the item of primary interest and should have a direct link rather than sending an interested reader off on a FIND THE LINK paper chase.
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What a farce.
Seriously, anymore if you want to learn to really think, stay as far away from a University as possible.
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filter
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yep, because we all know how much bandwith blogs burn up
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The Streisand Effect will soon lose its luster, as now people are doing things that seem to against them, but in fact actually bring them greater attention.
Take a look at the Boston Adult Swim marketing disaster. No attention at all was paid to those things for a week, no comment, no nothing. Then 5 calls go in to 911 within 5 mins. and there is almost a riot?
I wonder why they never talked about the punishment for making a false 911 call. Guess they couldn't prove it, or for some reason, didn't want to call attention to it.
That being said, you have C&D letters being sent not to take down information, but because it draws attention. I wonder how many blogs have sent themselves C&D letters.
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really?
indeed nice work
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Not if you're a publicly accountable figure, which this chancellor is.
And could everyone criticizing techdirt and Mike for their journalistic style just shut the hell up already? We get it, you don't like it. Move on to someplace you do.
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I think that this post is pretty funny considering it is in a thread that kind of talks about freedom of speech.
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Besides, a link to just the source article kind of encourages people to actually read it. From there, the reader can pursue the story further if he/she so chooses.
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So are you saying that people always WANT the Streisand effect? Sounds quite far fetched, even looking at the original event that gave this phenomenon its name.
"I wonder how many blogs have sent themselves C&D letters."
That makes no sense, seeing how it accomplishes nothing.
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It's on the internet. How hard is it to type google.com?
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Updated link
http://richard-carpenter-watch.blogspot.com/
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Thanks for reading and we are welcome you to join Community Colleges.
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