Inappropriate Images in Bloglines
February 15, 2007 by jzcolby
Warning: Bloglines has a feature marked as “New” entitled Image Wall. Of course, when you click on it you get a disclaimer to agree to. I agreed — I thought how bad could it be? Well, word of warning — don’t use it in school. As soon as it opened up, it was very inappropriate. I love the Internet and think it is the greatest but when things like this “pop up” it certainly dampens my spirit.
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Bloglines has taken the image wall and given it a seperate URL that can be blocked at schools. I tried to find their announcement but could not but Aound the Corner has the announcement.
Thanks Beth. After I had posted I noticed some more conversation going out there on the image wall and did see that post about Bloglines moving it to a separate URL. Hopefully, it will be blocked at Barnstable. I don’t worry too much at my school because at this point I am not showing Bloglines to students (but you never know what next year holds in store).