Comments on: Michael Gove is wrong about blogs

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:50:20 +0000

http://www.mikeduron.com/forums/

By: pcbloggs

pcbloggs — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:13:39 +0000

I love the way Gove thinks he knows what blogs are supposed to be. I haven’t got a clue and mine seems to be fairly successful. (pcbloggs.blogspot.com) Shame I’m only a dumb woman police officer… what would I know about the commonplace man?

By: Croydonian

Croydonian — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:49:56 +0000

If anyone fancies a giggle at the Govemeister’s expense, call in at your nearest remainder bookshop and marvel at the piles of his Portillo biography, famous for missing out on /that/ story….

By: Man in a Shed

Man in a Shed — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:52:24 +0000

I followed the link to his article, but it was too wordy and took too long to get his message across. Perhaps he’d do better with a mobile phone and only 256 characters ? He’s entitled to his opinion – its just to long winded to read.

By: Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:05:59 +0000

Well said, Ellee. Blogs are wonderful creations which reflect slices of our lives, or allows our creativity to run riot. Michael Gove is clearly uniformed, and has not scanned many blogs.

By: Welshcakes Limoncello

Welshcakes Limoncello — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:55:37 +0000

You are right, Ellee. Now we have a vehicle whereby everyone can have their say and that is so important. Who knows? Perhaps, one day in the far-distant future, wars and terrorism will be avoided because people will be able to get their point across to millions via this medium.

And young people are writing and reading again, as you say. “Ordinary lives” are interesting to people because no life is truly “ordinary”, is it?

I am a book-lover but I am sure blogging is going to transform publishing.

By: Ellee

Ellee — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:46:54 +0000

Kevin, let’s hope Michael reads these comments and gets a better idea about what blogging is all about.

By: Kevin Davis

Kevin Davis — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:35:58 +0000

The trouble is that Michael, like many others, has not really understood what a blog is about. It is NOT an online diary, recording the minutiae of the bloggers life. It is supposed to be a signpost to items on the web that the blogger found interesting, or comments on the events, linked to other webistes, that the blogger has a view on.

By: dizzy

dizzy — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:34:52 +0000

For the record, I am far more illiterate than you so ther [sic]

By: Ellee

Ellee — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:08:25 +0000

From the sound of it, we carry on doing our own thing and enjoying it.