Help a blogger teach others about blogging

CollegeWebEditor.com‘s Karine Joly will present a four-hour (!) workshop on blogging at the AMA Symposium for Higher Education next month, and as part of her prep work for that workshop, she’s looking for some insight from her fellow higher ed bloggers (as well as her non-blogging readers). I thought I’d help Karine out by extending the invitation to readers of this blog (even though I know there’s quite a bit of crossover readership).

Karine wants to know:

Is there anything you’d like to know about blogging in a higher ed setting?
or, if you’re a blogger yourself, is there anything you wish you had known before starting your blog?

Please share your insights with Karine, not here. (I never thought I’d be asking readers to not comment on my blog.)

Twitter use No. 178: a tool for terrorists

Just when you get to thinking that Twitter is this safe, innocuous, inane little tool, along comes the government, telling you that Twitter could be used as a tool for terrorists.

ZOMG! Cover the windows with duct tape, Ma! They’re coming after us through teh innerwebs.

Deep breath.

OK, it’s only a draft Army report (PDF), but it gets worse:

“Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences,” the report said. …

The report describes hacktivists as politically motivated hackers.