details of a global brain

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.