The first official practice of the Bill Parcells era in Miami featured a new restriction on the credentialed media’s ability to report on the events.

Live blogging is now prohibited.

Dolphins senior V.P. of media relations Harvey Greene says that the team has not allowed live accounts of practice in the past — such as television cameras, radio broadcasts, and cell phone reports.  “Every media outlet could file delayed reports of practice, but not live ones,” Greene said.

In 2007, live blogging slipped through the cracks in this regard, and the rule was not enforced.

It now is.

“We’re simply extending our policy to cover new technology,” Greene explained, “now that computers can be used to transmit v-logs and blogs.”

Greene says that 13 of 15 other teams that responded to an informal survey in this regard said that they don’t allow live blogs at practice, either.

Frankly, we don’t see the difference between allowing reporters to cover practice and write about what they saw and heard later and allowing reporters to report from practice in real time. They information will get out eventually; why not let it get out sooner rather than later?

And of course the irony of all of this is that the rule primarily hampers the efforts of Buzz Bissinger journalists to use the tools of the industry that Bissinger despises.