kellee's blog

i was not aware of the censorship issue, but am curious to learn more about what material can be deemed inappropriate for the blog?

likewise, i most certainly agree that if things have disappeared (and i can't help but wonder what those things are) and there are issues of censorship, you are absoutely right that it is important for the authors of this blog to know the rules of posting.

also, it would be most helpful to know who the "editor" of the blog is ... i never knew that this responsibility belonged to any one person.

thank you for sharing your thoughts on this most important issue.

I personally haven't experienced any censorship issues, but I'd imagine the line should be a personal one. Clearly, there are instances / grievances that everyone has with the dept. at some point or the other. For me, personally, I wouldn't just write some rant about that and post it up here. But maybe that's a personal thing to me. I don't really think that their should be any censorship, but rather a personal feeling of what's right and wrong / appropriate for this space. A personal rant, unless highly articulate and calculated, does not really add anything to this space, and therefore would be for me, inappropriate. Again, this may be different for you (the editorial you).

Also not aware of any censorship attempts or pressure, or discussions about appropriate language, etc. As a jointly authored effort, there is no moderation except for deleting spam comments.

Regarding purpose and audience, tried to address this for further discussion in a comment on a recent post by Will here: http://interactive.usc.edu/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2583

Hmmm…. Quite an issue if you ask me. Should this be a place of honest expression or an A2B solution? I would like to think I’m still in Art school, but at the same time that 2B part sounds awfully nice. This place is strange. I have felt no grip of authority, simply unspoken pressure; mostly exerted on myself, by myself. I wish there were more rants, we need them; Will needs them; all this tech crap gets so friggin’ boring. Where is expression? What is a kind of community is this if all we have is cushioned tech and class work reviews? I wish there was more honest poetry and less links to others works, as Will stated in a previous discussion, are we simply rebloggers?

Wouldn’t it be great to do something with this medium that isn’t so tech oriented? Wouldn’t it be beautiful, to try to make some honest human expression? Who cares about regulating, as I’m often told to, express, let it out, dance, sing, swear. This department is supposed to push the edge on content creation for these digital wonders we behold. Let’s do it already. I’m afraid what it might take is gusto, something that seems in short supply. My suggestion is go out on a limb, hang there for a while, see what the wind brings to you, or your screen.

p.s. is that enough of a rant? Oh yeah, Kellee your blog pic rocks!

First off, does this qualify as talking to yourself?

I was thinking about this more during my evening exercise. I like the stance that Scott took on Will's previous post on the topic. The main page of the blog is great for news, events and reblogging. Our personal pages are a great place for exploration into our own expression, i.e. do what you want. As always censorship is an issue, but I believe, here the biggest censor is the self.

I have to say I agree with Brad (in his comment on that "Comments-link," in that I've really enjoyed reading Erin's blog lately because of his efforts to branch out. I would love to be excited about reading the blogs of fellow classmates--something that has not yet occurred.

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Kellee - as someone who does technical support for the blog, I'd be most inclined to believe that technical support errors would be to blame for disappearing entries or comments! Certainly I haven't heard anything about squelching speech, but I'll keep my eye out. So far, I get the sense that we're given some pretty wide latitude here. But as we practice the digital arts, part of our job is to push boundaries, so it's to be expected that conflict could arise in this domain.