I just discovered these three weblogs (apparently maintained by these people):
»Radical Innovation & Social Software«,
»Collective Intelligence« and
»Community Blogging«.
It seems these blogs contain a mix of very interesting pointers and totally fogging pile of hotwords.
Monthly Archive for May, 2003
Gordon Meyer had a good experience with Tinderbox while listening to a talk to Douglas Engelbart.
If only Tinderbox would have more scripting-power it would be a superb tool for live-blogging.
»I’ve been working in similar directions as this – in an attempt to resolve the questions, “Can you have good discussion across the blogosphere?”, “What is the nature of that discussion?” and “How does it differ from message-board conversation?”. And I think the answer lies – yet again – in going back to the beginning and looking at the way the web in general (and weblogs in particular) operate like an academic citation network.«
Phillip Windley has collected some thoughts in preparation of the panel he will moderate: »I’ve been asked to moderate a panel on using weblogs in IT organizations at the upcoming Weblog Business Strategies conference in Boston (June 9-10). I’ve been mulling this topic over and trying to come up with questions and discussion topics for the panel members. Here’s what I’m thinking so far.«
»Read it to Me creates a playlist of MP3 files in iTunes from your unread items in NetNewsWire using Apple’s Text-to-Speech that you can sync to your iPod.« [inessential.com]
»Tom Coates’ delightfully thoughtful piece Discussion and Citation in the Blogosphere differentiates weblogs and discussion boards. He illustrates how weblogs generate better discussion by helping hide bad content and making it easier to find the good content.« [Corante: Social Software]
In this article, Microdoc News takes the example of a short 7 day blogologue (collectively written blog story) that is branded by the word googlewashed.
Andrew Grumet adds his ideas to the weblog theory: »Weblogs are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore for those of us who spend much time reading the Web. Also known by the inscrutable nickname “blogs”, weblogs are something of a hard nut to crack. Compounding the difficulty is the fact that a great deal of weblog content today is about weblogs and weblog technology. What are weblogs? What’s the big deal? Why should we pay attention? We attempt to answer these questions in the essay that follows.«
Ulrich van Stipriaan took this photo at the beginning of my presentation. I was the last presenter of the day and I thought people would appreciate a small body movement.
Ulrich has more photos here.
Sebastian Fiedler has photos here.
This is a collection of personal notes about some people I met at the BlogTalk conference. This is NOT a report on the weblog conference as such. That will follow later on.
Stephanie Nilsson is working on a thesis about how speech and writing may blend into something she calls »netspeak« or »blogspeak«.
It is interesting to see how people can grasp the material that is now generated as a reflection to the BlogTalk event:
Haiko Hebig collected some great quotes.
There is an aggregation of all the BlogTalk weblogs from JJ Merelo.
This server had outages the last days always around midnight. I apologize about that – if you’re here by trying again: I really appreciate that!
Hossein ist reporting about the weblog scene in Iran: 12.000 bloggers estimated in Iran. Six of the top ten Iranian blogs happen to be ones with sexual content.
His weblog is here.
David Weinberger made a list of all the webloggers that are in the conference room that are blogging live!
I experience some connection problems here with the Wireless LAN (some address conflicts maybe). Anyone else?
People are discussing how complexity is managed by weblogging and if semantic web or a blogsphere map do really create »meaning« or just another form of quantity.
My take on that: »Meaning« is not something outside anybodies head. It is cronstructed. The question is which strategies we have aquired to construct that meaning. It might be the case that we create meaning by relation inbetween concepts. A semantic network tries to record that relations. If they have meaning is not a question of what is in the semantic web database – but still what you get to when you look at what is in that database.
There is a question from Sebastian to Steve about what is a benefit to for »emergent ontologies« and not simply attaching to existing ontologies created by others.
Ethan is talking about the UC Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog. He is ginving some thoughts to topic weblogs. Authors of topic weblogs explore the topic more deeply and attract other people interested in the same topic.
Somehow the course weblogs we do at the Aachen University of Applied Science are all topic weblogs.
The “problem” I currently have with the notion of »topic weblogs«: Sometimes there are topics not clearly defined, with blurry edges, experts that even do not know that they would be considered an expert to that weblog. Would they find that weblog? Would they actually search? Would they be attracted?
But I can’t come up with a better name right now myself…
Ethan provides some “best practices” for a WKC his research has found:
- Determine your topic. “Write what you love.”
- Determine your blog team’s size.
- Analyze your audience
- Determine your infrastructure
- Decide on your mission
- Define categories
- Voice
- Decide on an information architecture
- Link!
- Participate
Andrius is talking about »The Algebra of Copyright«. He is proposing a four-level model (PPT file) for determining the level of copyrights by the amount of parsing done with a work. I think you need to read his paper – I can’t summarize his thoughts here. It suppose it is a way to determine if you can use a work by looking at what you do with it.
David Weinberger has a good link for this material.
Azeem Azhar is the host of the current panel and he is taking notes here. He has some other news for me on his blog: Matrix Reloaded is crap!
Steve’s topic is »Markup with Meaning« and he is discussing Semantic blogging and emergent knowledge exchange. Common knowledge management approach don’t support the sharing behavior of participants. The concept ultimately results in a bottom-up approach to ontology-building. If I understand correctly..
Here is his presentation file (PDF).