Bad press, or the danger from blogs. I just ran across this August entry on collegewebeditor.com, where U Colorado's former president Betsy Hoffman is said to have learned the hard way that some of an institution's bad news might come over the horizon on blogs:

In her recent article, “Hoffman denounces blogs,” Jennifer Brown from The Denver Post reports that former University of Colorado president Betsy Hoffman “said she wished she would have assigned one of her staffers to read political blogs every day, as she does now.”

The comments section mentions some of the ways a college president / newcomer to blogging or her assistant might be able to scan the blogosphere from the comfort of her own news aggregator.

Experiences like these will probably teach some administators to defend themselves against blogs. We still have to teach them the virtues of the beasts. [0 & P]