The blind leading the blind?

Blue Eyed Ennis' Blog 

Two years since I finished my ICTs course at CQUniversity and I recall my Blog. 16211 other people have "recalled" my Blog in that 24 month period. OMG. What does that tell us? That 16,000 other student teachers have been desperate enough to read a blog written by another student two years ago, in their attempts to research and write their own uni assignments? Worse still, maybe some (even?) less knowledgeable students - perhaps those in the very primary schools in which we now teach - cut and paste some of my drivel into one of their school projects. Scary.


Kudos to those 271 people who actually viewed (verified?) my profile, no doubt determining that I really was (am?) perhaps not the best option for even a quote, never mind advice.

What else does this statistic of 16,000 lost souls illustrate? The fact that the wwww (wonderful world wide web) is full of rubbish (albeit with tons of useful stuff hidden in there somewhere). How many half-started blogs, wikis and websites are out there? How many words, paragraphs and pages are hanging around in the ether just waiting to be "Googled" (and quickly ignored by those who realise the lack of gravitas of the author (would that be levitas?)), or worse, quoted or relied upon; taken as "gospel"?

Ester Goldberg's Blog

Millions of words, hundreds of thousands of webpages clogging up (should that be "Glogging" up?) search engines (though having to fight for space with (equally) useless (but perhaps even more annoying) search sites in disguise: those sites whose synopsis paragraph on Google's search results seem exactly what you're looking for but turn out to be just another search or directory site full of ads (for "amazing fat burning secrets", Russian brides and libido- (or worse) increasing lotions, potions and pills)).

Who is going to police, judge, manage or delete these immeasurable, infinite (growing daily), yet obsolete offerings? These thoughts mirror those in my post Wiki Reflections and the comments of Marshall who, in essence, says "it's all a bit hard this management of web spaces malarkey" - Marshall, Engagement Theory, WebCT, and academic writing in Australia, International Journal of Education and Development using ICT > Vol. 3, No. 2 (2007).

Conroy Media Reforms

And who would you trust to manage, delete or censor this plethora of information? We can't even agree how the current press should be managed in Australia. It's not like we can automatically delete pages if they've not been accessed for X years, as us poor desperates keep getting suckered into clicking through to these "promise everything, deliver nothing" sites. Nor can sites over X years since creation be automatically deleted. Imagine the work (and the hassle) involved in contacting every suspected dormant or obsolete site's "owner" or creator and giving them warning their baby is about to be deleted...

...World Wide Web Master - a job for life.

Obi-Wan and Darth Vader "interview" for the vacant World Wide Web Master position

I guess we're going to have to decide one day...