Category: Weblog Theory

The BloggerCon webcasts work much better today. Yesterday it was just impossible to watch them. Today I don’t have the time to follow the sessions (there are two parallel streams anyway). I hope there will be some sessions viewable as archive later on.

Alan Levine: “Anyone RSS-ing or surfing the education weblog scenes (e.g. Weblogg-ed) know that educator weblogs are catching on as a quiet revolution. And it is happening here in our system, a quiet revolution thaking place in and under the radar.”

I missed the Blogging Across the Curriculum site from Pattie Belle Hastings: “Weblogs are increasingly being used in education by researchers, teachers, and students. Professors are keeping research blogs, requiring students to blog, or creating course weblogs. Students are keeping course blogs or personal blogs. Scholars are studying and writing about the weblog phenomenon while…

Micheal Angeles: »Lucent Technologies’ Information Specialist, Michael Angeles, believes blogging has evolved beyond “cool” and is moving quickly into the corporate world. In this presentation, Angeles will discuss who blogs, how and why.He will also discuss how Lucent is supporting bloggers and at the same time keeping close watch over the resulting growth of information…

Here is someone from Scotland looking for english speaking webloggers to take part in an experiment.

Boston Globe: Blogs shake the political discourse. [via Der Schockwellenreiter] Interesting to see how opinion leaders in the weblog community push towards political relevance of the weblog discourse. Well… seems the whole weblog community wants to be opinion leading somehow…

Chris Lydon interviews David Sifry, father of Technorati. I like Technorati a lot – it is a very useful tool to track connections between weblogs (or the reading trails of the weblog authors). David talks about this at the end of the interview: a hyperlink is a piece of metadata that created Google. Technorati now…

Marry Harsch: »The implications of RSS file syndication for the academy—in particular, its potential to expand the scope and prominence of self-published Web content—are significant, especially when files are produced from the content of a professional’s weblog. In essence, RSS syndication technology provides a bridge between isolated Web content and interested information consumers in multiple…

Jill Walker: »One thing I’ve really liked in the student weblogs I’ve been grading is that there are a lot of posts that are really useful. It’s so different from exams where only the examiners are ever going to see all the work students have done. For instance, a colour blind student teaches other students…

I really wonder why it seems to be so hard for people to define what a weblog is. Yes, there are many different styles. Yes, it’s not the technology. And no, it’s not depending on the number of links in the weblog posts itself. I wrote about it when I compared weblogging with DJ-ing: It’s…

Mike Edwards has a longer comment in reaction to the »Weblogs and Discourse« paper. And there’s other very interesting comments on kairowsnews.org.

The paper »Weblogs and Discourse« got encouraging feedback. I am glad about that I I’d like to share the links to all those people I found that commented. Note to self: Some may even be starting points for further investigations. John Palfrey: Worth a read if you’re thinking about the Web and paedagogy. Reece Lamshed:…

Dave Winer: People talk about reasons to have a weblog, how will you measure its success. I wanted to say You’ll know when it works, you won’t need numbers. You’ll get an idea you wouldn’t have otherwise gotten. A business contact. A bug report. An old friend finds you. You get a job. You hire…

Charlie Lowe pointed me to a text he wrote for the Computers And Writing Conference 2003 conference. It’s about Weblog CMS’s as alternative to Learning Management Systems (like Blackboard; see screenshot). He looked closer at PostNuke.

Heath Row is really fast with the keyboard. So there are almost complete transcripts of the panels available (there are also some alternative transcripts from Denise Howell). They haven’t provided an overview of the transcripts, so I add that here: Postlude XVII: Live Blogging XVI: Using Weblogs in Large IT Organizations XV: The Open Source…

David Carraher identifies a fundamental issue: “There are barriers separating teacher education, curriculum development, and research about learning and teaching.” I don’t know if he makes a general argument about the development of education systems or if he just reflects on Harvard. From my local experience here in Germany I can say that there are…

Jay Cross about the »Weblogs and Discourse« paper: »This is thought-provoking if you’re contemplating the interplay of blogs and learning.«

Stephen Downes comments on the »Weblogs and Discourse« paper: For those students who find writing a chore, blogging is a chore. Those students who wouldn’t write a journal, or a news article, or a letter, won’t write a blog. If we have to convince people to blog, to in some way grade them or mark…

David Glenn: n their skeptical moments, academic bloggers worry that the medium smells faddish, ephemeral. But they also make a strong case for blogging’s virtues, the foremost of which is freedom of tone. Blog entries can range from three-word bursts of sarcasm to carefully honed 5,000-word treatises. The sweet spot lies somewhere in between, where…

»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…