David made some good points about blogging as a kind of self-empowerment, multiple-sbujectivity and journalism actually blending into bloggery (or vice versa).
David is blogging live here. And his presentation is here (as well as the others).
Monthly Archive for May, 2003
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I am at BlogTalk. There is a special page with two webloggers blogging live.
Jörg Kantel is blogging as well.
That’s what »getting connected« means to me:
Yesterday eveninig I had some very interesting chats with Andrius Kulikauskas. He was talking about his open laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers. It’s called »Minciu Sodas«.
The funny thing here is I remember to have found the page about his laboratory long before and I really thought it would be cool to meet this guy but I assumed this would not happen. I shouldn’t be so sceptical in future 
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Paolo Valdemarin seems to create an interesting new art that could compete with the mirror-shot idea: How much recursion can you catch in a photo (displayed on a screen). (Simone Bettini joins)
There are some more cool photos here.
Fernando (and his colleges) is covering the spanish speaking weblog scene. They talk about how they tried to figure out how many webloggers are in Spain (and elsewhere). They also try to map the blogsphere visually.
Their presentation is here (PDF).
Dan Gillmor does a good job on noting down his thoughts in a single document.
If you are using weblogs in education I ask you register here and afterwards take part in this survey. It might be interesting for others to read.
Maria is reporting about the blogging scene in Poland (over 60% of the webloggers are women, 40% men). Estimated 100.000 weblogs in poland. She says technically the polish bloggers use less sophisticated technology (mostly only posts and comments – no K-Logs or RSS). 90% writing their weblogs from home. Maria is emphasizing the social aspects weblogs as a third place and a virtual social life – so mainly polish weblogs serve communication and community purposes.
Her weblog is here.
»Two important characteristics of blogs are that they are written by a person who is knowledgeable and passionate about the topic, and they are written in a “real voice.” This is a cosmic shift from the marketing and public relations materials that are the staple of business communications. «
This article discusses typical patterns of how a weblog story is echoed in blogsphere and mainstream media. The author writes that he has analyzed ten stories.
There is a page with all the presentation files from the BlogTalk conference. Very good. I didn’t know if I liked it to see my presentation published without my actual presentation – but I think it gives people an idea what is going on. If I had to vote for openess or against I would vote for (no matter how lousy the slides are without the words…).
I finally put online the paper that backs up my presentation at the BlogTalk conference in Vienna on Friday: Weblogs and Discoure
Even if that document is unfinished and will change: comments are welcome.
Tom Coates on defining social software (jumping off from Doug Englebart’s ideas of software as human augmentation):
Social software is a particular sub-class of software-prosthesis that concerns itself with the augmentation of human social and / or collaborative abilities through structured mediation.
His brief introduction sparked an interesting conversation in the comments section of that page.
The realvideos of the Wizard of OS conference are offline or buried in docuverse somehow. This is just an example why links should be designed wisely (and -by the way- it is totally unacceptable that Typo3 does not yet allow to define precise URLs).
I can only quote Brent’s Law of CMS URLs: “The more expensive the CMS, the crappier the URLs.”
Mark Pilgrim has compiled extensive manuals about how to make you HTML pages more accessible. Grouped by publishing tools, disabilities, editors and browsers.
»WikiLog: an attempt to synthesize the best aspects of WikiWikis and WebLogs.
Yes, weblogs can be done by hand on any wiki. The difference is that automating it makes it more powerful, and conceptually easier for people to work with.«
According to this german article the theoretical maximal penalty for Microsofts latest security hole in Passport would be 2.2 trillion dollars ($11,000 for each of the 200 million accounts).
myphp is an extension that allows MySQL to execute PHP code that is stored in the database tables.
This is ridiculous. So who can explain me that the biggest Software company in the world while implementing a worldwide authentification system leaves a public accessible script can be used to hack any Passport account in seconds?
Unbelievable.