The discussion of persistent identity started by Catherine Howell's
post has taken another turn for me that she presaged in her reasons not to use blogs in education (see below).
" Persistence: the persistence of blogs (via permalinks, trackbacks etc, to say nothing of the recently-sued Wayback Machine) is at odds with the desire to create a personal repository that can be selectively shared and edited, over time. "
In replying to the thread he started, Andrew Middleton
says "I am not sure how important it is to consider blog entries as being representative of a person. When we read a blog don't we understand that the ideas are transient?"
Stephen Downes took
several issues with Catherine, one of which agreed with Middleton
"Leaving aside our ability to read dates, this concern misrepresents blogs as a static information base rather than the stream it actually is."
