Blog School?

I give you simple equations here:

Student + School of Engineering = Engineer
Student + School of Medicine = Doctor
Student + School of Business = Businessman
Student + School of Law = Lawyer
Student + School of Blogging = Bloggers?

Now, what do you think of Dip. Blog? Or Professional Bloggers?

I read this on Rocky's Bru:

UiTM wants to produce ethical and professional bloggers.

"Currently, we do have blogging studies in our curriculum and this will be enhanced further by introducing a course on blog writing. I feel that the Communication and Media Studies Faculty is ready to conduct the course and I fully support this move (to introduce blog writing course) as it is time for us to help produce bloggers who are not only professionals, but with ethics," (UiTM vice chancellor Prof Ibrahim Abu Shah) told a media conference after opening a seminar on Media and the 2008 General Election, here Monday.

In Malaysia, blog has currently being seen as a political tool rather than the original online diary where you can rant about almost everything. Now, if we take blog at its very pure form, it will be the same as writing. Well, there are courses in writing and journalism already. Why bother do a course in blogging if you can create a blog by reading step by step instruction on Blogger.com?

Or maybe the VC wants to do an Akademi Fantasi approach on their new School of Blogging? You know, the kind that you feature who can blog the best, and voters will decide on it. Maybe put it on reality TV, so that people can see what food they eat, what books they read.

If ethical means putting a stop for an unbiased review of issues in the country, then professional bloggers are worse than amateur ones.

If professional means putting a halt in freedom of speech and to report without fear or favor, then the course is of course another way to suffocate and regulate.

So, after this if you want to practice blogging in Malaysia, you got to have a certain qualification?

Blog is an abridgment of the term web log. Its something you write on when you are in the sea of information (i.e Internet) the same with the Captain's log that records his voyages. The captain decides what to write and to report on. Maybe the words used are not appropriate, nevertheless is the personal opinion of that very Captain.

Blog can be very biased because its a personal opinion. It depends fully on that person. Mainstream medias are biased too. The only difference is that the MSMs are licensed.

Leave blogs alone. Give more essay writing and assignments to students instead. Writing skills can be very beneficial to Malaysian students.