Category: Weblog Theory

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…

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…

Stephanie Nilsson is working on a thesis about how speech and writing may blend into something she calls »netspeak« or »blogspeak«.

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…

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).

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…

»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…

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.

Almost two year ago I created a 12-question survey for people that use weblogs in education. I got positive feedback and visitors liked to read the answers. If you are a weblogger in educational context I ask you to answer the survey. You just have to register yourself once. And comment to this thread.

The preview conference program of Blogtalk is online. I have not yet added myself to the panelists page but I will do that soon.

Dave Winer thinks Radio Userland has a better interface for reading RSS feeds: RSS readers that work like Usenet readers are a waste of time, imho. Aggregators should not organize news by where items came from, just present the news in reverse chronologic order. Of course I disagree. I was turned off by Radio Userlands…

Dave Pollard has posted a blog entry on using weblogs in business. In it, he outlines an enterprise-wide architecture model for using weblogs as a source of intranet content. Quote: As weblog tools become more powerful and flexible, open sourcing of weblog add-ons increases, and RSS and XML technologies advance and become standard, the justification…