Peter Murray at Informaticopia mentioned our ALT-C 2006 presentation and being concerned “about the control factor they seemed to be imposing”.

Just to clarify this point, during our blogging@bu pilot although some of the pilots in IHCS and SM were/will be behind a firewall due to issues of content we did run blogs in the clear using a variety of products – blogger, bloglines, elgg and the ubiquitous edublogs. Sorry if this point didn’t come across in our presentation, but it is an interesting area open to debate. There are plenty of instances as to why it might be advisable to exercise control in some cases. One such case can be seen at Slashdot

The slides from the Blogging@BU presentation can be viewed here