Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Has Haringey Blocked Flickr?
Councillor Alan Stanton reports in another post that he fears that Haringey Council have blocked their staff from accessing Flickr. Can this be?
Alan wrote:
Sadly, the Council's staff now appear to have been blocked from seeing what the borough looks like beyond their offices. Perhaps the photos of dumping posted by Liz, me and others have proved too 'dirty'?
Alan wrote:
Sadly, the Council's staff now appear to have been blocked from seeing what the borough looks like beyond their offices. Perhaps the photos of dumping posted by Liz, me and others have proved too 'dirty'?
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Shareholders accept, Catholics accept. Why don't we? We're not very nice people?
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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It could be just a question of bandwidth. Most Web 2.0 sites take up a lot more of it than simple one-way sites. LBH has to pay huge sums I'm sure for its web access. Allowing access to sites using big chunks of the bandwidth, slows down access for everybody, sometimes to the point of stalling.
And timewasting temptations are real. Facebook seems to be the most addictive. The 17-y-olds I teach can exemplify what happens. My college unblocked Facebook at the beginning of this year. Within two weeks, in a college of 2000 students, they were getting 40000 (forty thousand) hits a day, during class times. In a couple of years those FB users could well have jobs in LBH, and they will expect that access. Existing employees have already come through similar histories. I have to work to get my students even to check email, they say thats for old people, that Youth now just use SMS and Facebook to communicate. Future - *shudders*
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Bandwidth hasn't been raised as an issue. In fact, hardly any of the reasons given above have been put forward. Here's the reply I received from Stuart Young, one of Haringey's Assistant Chief Executives, who, last October, said that a six months-pilot scheme would be run for all staff to access social media sites. It hasn't happened, but I haven't been told why.
As you'll see from that thread, the main issue seems to be that Haringey management has - in effect - outsourced its managerial responsibilities to a software firm which sells a filtering tool called "WebSense”.
The issue you raised about your students was touched on by Kake Pugh, a Hol member. She suggested that the internet:"has the potential to be more of a problem; it's a more immersive environment than phone or email, and easier to lose oneself in."
But the general point you make applies in many kinds of work - simply because so many people now carry around a small always-on computer. I've seen plumbers and roofers who seem to spend half their time on their mobiles.
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