tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31986492011-06-30T13:40:26.212-07:00blogonblogA blog about using blogs. Torill Mortensen and Jill Walker wrote: "Blogging Thoughts, personal publication as an online research tool". Next project is: "Intimate Confessions and Public Display". This blog works as space in which to collect ideas and tangents to this research.Torillnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-1088690423859827142004-07-01T06:58:00.000-07:002004-07-01T07:00:23.860-07:00blogOn Just noting, for curiousity's sake, and for those who happen to come here by mistake, that BlogOn 2004, the conference on blogs hosted by UC Berkeley, has a blog named BlogOn Blog.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-1083506415294060732004-05-02T07:00:00.000-07:002004-05-02T07:03:24.640-07:00historical links A 1999 Salon article on weblogs.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-1082366684332815572004-04-19T02:24:00.000-07:002004-04-19T02:27:40.060-07:00Some blog topics from Jill Just linking them quickly here: Mexican blogging - literary mexican blogging. More trackbacks and links from Jill's post. Prehistory of blogs with Justin Hall by way of Jill.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-1078824270148603162004-03-09T01:24:00.000-08:002004-03-09T01:26:44.810-08:00Driving Elite Media Discourse The Blogosphere (pdf), How a Once-Humble Medium Came to Drive Elite Media Discourse and Influence Public Policy and Elections by Joel David Bloom. abstract: Abstract: In December of 2002, Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) resigned his position of Senate Majority Leader under pressure from the media, his own caucus and the White House. This pressure was the result of Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-1056457045860427262003-06-24T05:17:00.000-07:002003-06-24T05:18:45.940-07:00Blogcount By way of Hilde and Lisbeth: Blogcount, which estimates between 2,4 and 2,9 weblogs.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-915645262003-03-28T12:20:00.000-08:002003-03-28T12:20:44.186-08:00More blog teaching linksTorillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-915644312003-03-28T12:18:00.000-08:002003-03-28T12:18:51.420-08:00blogging thoughts link...Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-902272352003-03-06T00:16:00.000-08:002003-03-06T00:16:53.340-08:00on the reading list "Blogging thoughts" is on the reading list for HUCO-500: Cyberculture, at the University of Alberta, Canada.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-896351942003-02-24T02:50:00.000-08:002003-02-24T02:50:04.763-08:00Google buys blogger This article (Wired News) speculates on why.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-865819272002-12-27T01:15:00.000-08:002002-12-27T01:15:15.430-08:00News and blogs How blogs can shape opinions and bring news quicker than newspapers, an article in Wired by Noah Shachtman.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-863673362002-12-21T10:35:00.000-08:002002-12-21T10:35:37.573-08:00Personal knowledge publishing and it's use in research, an article by Seb Paquet.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-861752052002-12-17T09:54:00.000-08:002002-12-17T09:55:08.000-08:00"Use the blog, Luke" The irresistible title of an article by Steven Johnson in the technology and business section of salon.com. by way of Jonblogg by Jon HoemTorillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-849149782002-11-22T00:50:00.000-08:002002-11-22T00:50:08.333-08:00Intimacy and publicity Blogs are closely connected to the rhythm of daily lives. The postings are structured not by importance, topic or sensationalism, but by time. This way we get a journal which - while it's submitting to the strict linearity of time, it also submits to the non-linearity of how things happen. Lives are not structured by narrative models or dramatic curves, life is Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-842777202002-11-09T07:07:00.000-08:002002-11-09T07:07:51.210-08:00Liz Lawley of Mamamusings posted this excerpt from a mailing list discussion of why / how blogs might be taking over after/from an email discussion culture. Apparently Foucault argues that western notions of subjectivity were developed through letter-writing and then (or simultaneously?) diary-writing. We should hunt down this reference for our intimacy article. Here's the excerpt from the Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-842150592002-11-08T00:02:00.000-08:002002-11-08T00:02:16.000-08:00Intimacy and publicity, the ambivalence of blogs, is a dicotomy both tantalizing and confusing. This is the topic of our next blog exploration, one which will be run alongside the rest of our work. It's pure fun because we enjoy working together and like the way our different theoretical approaches enhance the finished work. We have not started looking for a place to publish it yet, finding a Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-840512152002-11-05T01:21:00.000-08:002002-11-05T01:21:58.626-08:00Jeg oppdaget i dag at faget vårt har en blogg: ~~ Huminf Hovedfag ~~.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-839682072002-11-03T12:05:00.000-08:002002-11-03T12:05:12.503-08:00Swedish discussion of blogs and Habermas and the public sphere and so on - mentioned at Det perfekta tomrummet, which refers to an article in Dagens Nyheter: Framtidens tidning skrivs av alla.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-839172562002-11-02T05:06:00.000-08:002002-11-02T05:06:06.060-08:00Blogs, personal e-learning spaces, the pdf of a report by Reece Lamshed, Dr.Marsha Berry and Laurie Armstrong June 2002.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-839168032002-11-02T04:39:00.000-08:002002-11-02T05:10:17.000-08:00Sébastien Paquet writes about Personal Knowledge publishing and its uses in research . This article contains several interesting links to resources on personal publishing and research.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-839167092002-11-02T04:33:00.000-08:002002-11-02T04:33:37.206-08:00blog on blog in chinese!Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-828430722002-10-11T07:52:00.000-07:002002-10-19T08:08:06.000-07:00Bias in the Blogosphere is an essay by an undergrad (name unknown?) for his Politics and Media class, which argues that blogs are inherently slanted towards white, middle-class, American, right-wing men. While I don't agree with his conclusion, he does have a glorious number of links and really pulls together a lot of the debate on blogs and bias and so on in the last year. Unfortunately there's Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-826526302002-10-07T13:31:00.000-07:002002-10-07T13:31:21.070-07:00One of the comments lost with the template error was a question which related to the use of the paper. Could you please ask again, and this time to my mailbox? Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-826500622002-10-07T12:30:00.000-07:002002-10-07T12:30:00.470-07:00Revenge of the Blog, a symposium at Yale Law School, November 22, 2002. New Haven, Connecticut. (by way of hypertext kitchen)Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-820903682002-09-25T05:10:00.000-07:002002-09-25T05:10:36.440-07:00By way of spiritualism: Marshall McLuhan on weblogs in The New, New Journalism .Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-807828112002-08-27T10:05:00.000-07:002002-08-27T10:05:27.210-07:00Newsweek on blogs Stephen Levy: A blog about writing about blogs (hey, that sounds familiar). Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-781725362002-06-25T04:05:00.000-07:002002-06-25T04:05:19.810-07:00Does expanding the blog by comments have anything to do with blogging, or is that confusing the issue? Is that just creating a hybrid homepage, or does it change the style, purpose and function of the blog?Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-769219252002-05-24T06:15:00.000-07:002002-05-24T06:15:19.743-07:00Tinka has read Jill's and mine paper Blogging Thoughts, regretting that she didn't use her blog, 6th edition, as a tool while writing. If it's any kind of consolation, dust from a distant sun has been one of the blogs both Jill and I have followed, learning about the different ways to use and explore online journals. Thanks, Tinka. (Yes, I posted this elsewhere too.)Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-764303052002-05-11T07:59:00.000-07:002002-05-11T07:59:08.400-07:00Anders writes: My suggestion is a blog with only one post visible, the last one. And links to the previous, and the next (if one exists). Links to other related posts would make it even better. As I use Tinderbox, it would be easy to redesign this blog to show what I mean. If I find two hours spare time one time soon, I will do it. If that's what you want, Anders, sure, get it. You won't be Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-763770252002-05-09T18:11:00.000-07:002002-05-09T18:11:33.080-07:00Lovely comments about our article from David Weinberger :) Peter Merholz has also mentioned us.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-755410272002-04-18T02:56:00.000-07:002002-04-18T02:56:41.050-07:00Internet Magazine - News/Advice/Reviews/ISPs/Hosting Evan Williams interviewed. From the front-page of www.blogger.com, as well as from Hilde, emailed.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-751562422002-04-08T00:49:00.000-07:002003-09-29T03:05:45.216-07:00Joel's blog is far from an academic publication. He writes about whether or not he gets a hand-job, among other things. This is the classic naïve weblog, where the author writes openly, unworried about the consequences of who might read it. Subjectivity:The subject as author – the active subject - The subject in research A journalist wrote about the “handjob guy”. Publishing The distinction Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-751317202002-04-07T06:53:00.000-07:002002-04-07T07:03:09.000-07:00Torill's quick disposition, to be edited, noted here in case of catastrophe and no further opportunities to update before tomorrow when we're presenting. Different blogging genres The diary The journal The ramble The pleasure of design: visual aesthetics Writing for readers Guest bloggers and networks Group-blogs, community blogs Extending the private sphere Private investigation online ResearchJillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-751315562002-04-07T06:41:00.000-07:002002-04-07T06:41:16.676-07:00Esther Dyson writes about online conference blogging.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-750689962002-04-05T04:05:00.000-08:002002-04-05T04:05:28.393-08:00Mark likes our paper and sends an email with a very useful list of details he feels we should look at, if we have time before publishing. Sadly, we don't. But there was one amusing little thing, which I will mention, even if I haven't asked Mark for permission to quote from his letter - which was for Jill, actually. At one point we write about jealous professors with too little time on their Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-113720952002-04-02T02:23:00.000-08:002002-04-02T02:23:07.863-08:00Wittgenstein and the relationship between his diaries and his works. The Wittgenstein Archives should be a good resource. This might be just what we need when we expand the blog-paper to a paper on science theory.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-109702122002-03-21T06:58:00.000-08:002002-03-21T06:58:29.220-08:00Jill, I'd like to put in links to the pages we will be using in the presentation to the left here. If you remember any we will be using/quoting, will you set them in? Or if you don't like the idea, let me know and we think of something else.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-109644922002-03-21T02:19:00.000-08:002002-03-21T02:31:02.000-08:00Jill talks of weblogs and Wiki. I was considering using a wiki rather than a weblog at one point. One game I play (the only one presently) has a very nice wiki-generated collaborative site: Azhad. This is an exellent option: it's not structured as strictly as blogger, it resides on a server, accessible with a browser from any machine connected to the web, and it is very open for collaboration.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-108546052002-03-18T03:55:00.000-08:002002-03-18T03:59:16.000-08:00Something we should mention in our oral presentation: Hate Blogs - which are in contrast to the positive picture we paint of open, honest community-building. Cameron Marlow of Blogdex has taken an anti-semitic blog off the Blogdex indexes and asks users for their opinions on this - it's certainly a difficult ethical matter. See also UFO Breakfast's piece on attack blogs.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-107590362002-03-15T03:09:00.000-08:002002-03-15T03:11:05.000-08:00Alex Golub comments on blogs and blogging, in some amusing as well as interesting entries from Wednesday 13th of March (no permalinks). Any way, before I was distracted by the majesty of Rustem Ismagilov I was discussing being slowly but surely sucked into the blogging lifestyle. Like resocialization everywhere, it strikes whether you want it to or not and ends up drawing all kinds of shit out Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-107589292002-03-15T03:01:00.000-08:002002-03-15T03:01:40.383-08:00I am reading Peter Lunenfeld's article 'Unfinished business' which is the first in a collection of articles edited by him: The Digital Dialectic. He speaks of the aesthetics of the web as the aesthetics of the unfinished, using Justin Hall as an example. Since Justin Hall's site comes pretty close to a weblog, I think what Lunenfeld writes is very interesting. He speaks of the meander - as Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-107587042002-03-15T02:47:00.000-08:002002-03-15T02:47:38.700-08:00I had a look at Dan Bricklin's essay on blogging. It was fair enough, he describes what blogs are used for and why pretty precisely, but that's it. He doesn't put it into much of a larger context in literature, journalism or autobiography or offer a particularly well-researched collection of links to the debate, but after all, it doesn't claim to be anything but his own observations.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-107295552002-03-14T04:23:00.000-08:002002-03-14T04:23:52.913-08:00Dan Bricklin has an essay on blogging that I've not read yet, but here's a bookmark for it: Observations From a WebloggerJillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-106914872002-03-13T05:35:00.000-08:002002-03-13T05:35:15.173-08:00Eirik Newth kaller Torill og Jill "gode norske bloggere" (takk) men ser ellers blogging som en slitsom sak som vil ødelegge nettet i artikkelen Signal til støy i Kulturnett idag. Han er bekymret over alt søppelet. Jeg er overrasket over at ikke Eirik, som blant annet er en kløpper på Usenet (snakk om signal til støy forhold der), ikke ser filtreringen i blogger, og at det er en annen lesemåte herJillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-106912702002-03-13T05:24:00.000-08:002002-03-13T05:24:30.866-08:00"interest-group despotism" - Turbulent Velvet of UFO Breakfast objects to the discussions about blogging at JOHO etc: Interesting, Derek Powazek says exactly this, but meant positively, in his book Design for Community. He writes (something like) "You can't have a community without excluding some poeple." Anyway, not sure how useful this is, but it's interesting to note people who disagree Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-106908402002-03-13T04:59:00.000-08:002002-03-13T04:59:43.440-08:00Blogs by known academics: leuschke.org, UFO Breakfast. The blogs aren't specifically research oriented but many posts make it clear that the writers are academics and sometimes they refer, sort of, to their work. More often to politics. I think. Without having read them for very long yet. No doubt there are many others.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-106144642002-03-11T03:21:00.000-08:002002-03-11T03:21:36.850-08:00Jason Kottke on weblogs and journalism.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-106120302002-03-11T00:37:00.000-08:002002-03-11T00:37:06.443-08:00We have a few smaller changes we need to do with the paper, Jill. And we need to do those changes today. Helloooo, Jill? settling down to read Andrew's commentsTorillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-104441392002-03-06T01:53:00.000-08:002002-03-06T01:54:49.000-08:00Tinka at distant.sun is taking a break from blogging. As one of her readers commented: if the readers are uncomfortable, why not remove the stat-meters? That's the blessing of blogs: we can imagine as many or as few readers as we like: feel private or public, and even imagine the readers to be just the way we want them. Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-104030342002-03-05T03:34:00.000-08:002002-03-05T03:34:32.406-08:00SKIKT-KONFERANSENE 2002 new addressTorillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-103607482002-03-04T02:46:00.000-08:002002-03-04T03:47:18.000-08:00the silent object? Jill writes about her being criticised for criticising journalists. I think perhaps her friend's reaction documented in the post from march 1st 2002 and the discomfort to blogs of Annalee Newitz is the same thing: the journalist's fear of exactly that: becoming objects. To a journalist, we are all objects: all potential stories. It has to be this way, they have to try to be Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-102648942002-03-01T07:14:00.000-08:002002-03-06T00:56:23.000-08:00Greysweater.net the difference between where I am and where I want to be Brooklyn Kid Freadshead.org three more blogs using pictures, found through looking at twins for lightningfield.com at the blog twinning project.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-102646052002-03-01T07:05:00.000-08:002002-03-01T07:05:22.250-08:00David Gallagher | lightningfield.com A reply to a comment to the previous post: This is my favourite blog with pictures. Should we discuss why blogs as a rule don't have pictures? I think that's very simple. It's more complicated, you need a server to store the pictures on, and it takes great skill in photography to be able to have a conversation through pictures. Luckily, there are some Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-102325392002-02-28T10:45:00.000-08:002002-02-28T10:45:09.386-08:00An article about how google loves weblogs, including an example where someone got readers to link to "Critical IP sucks" which quickly made his weblog a higher hit on google than the actual ISP, Critical IP.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-102323612002-02-28T10:40:00.000-08:002002-02-28T10:40:15.600-08:00Annalee Newitz expresses her journalistic annoyance with bloggers: I fear the blog. Partly this is just jealousy, because as a writer I'm trying to put my stamp on the news as quickly as possible, and bloggers inevitably get there before me with their endless updates and capacious discussion threads and daunting lists of hotlinks. Then there are the enviable ways in which blogs deliver their newsJillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-102225232002-02-28T05:18:00.000-08:002002-02-28T05:18:59.240-08:00By way of Lisbeth and Elin, Henry Jenkins explains his position. Not really surprising, he explained his position pretty well in the article, the most interesting thing here is that he has to use the blog of a student to reach "the blogging community". Or rather, this is interesting on several levels 1) that he feels the need to explain himself. 2) that he does so by way of his students - thatTorillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-102181132002-02-28T00:55:00.000-08:002002-02-28T00:55:39.413-08:00Henry Jenkin's has written a fairly long response which is posted at Elin's blog.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-100967282002-02-25T01:54:00.000-08:002002-02-26T00:01:17.000-08:00vog blog::vlog Here's one of the things which annoys me a little as the reader of Ceres/Tinderbox-produced blogs. As a faithful reader of Adrian's site, I get overwhelmed when he doesn't post for three weeks, and then suddenly pours three weeks of writing into his weblog. I have noticed the same to a lesser extent with Jill and Mark. To me, reading blogs is about the little drips of thoughts -Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-100413642002-02-23T09:38:00.000-08:002002-02-24T23:34:51.000-08:00Dennis Mahoney has an article at A List Apart: How to Write a Better Weblog. He reckons the writing has to improve, and become more "professional" - more precise, better spelling and grammar etc. Dave Winer (who really does have fast and clear commentary on virtually anything that moves near a blog) reckons this is "mostly OK" but points out that amateur doesn't mean bad, it just means you're notJillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-100382002002-02-23T07:12:00.000-08:002002-02-23T07:13:13.000-08:00HAPPY BIRTHDAY TORILL!Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-100058352002-02-22T08:19:00.000-08:002002-02-23T07:12:14.000-08:00Comments to Tinka. And Lisbeth, only I posted them in Tinka's blog cos she has comments. Interesting thoughts, Tinka. I'm curious: How did the CBCBC cluster form? Clearly not only because of geographic proximity - there are other bloggers in Copenhagen, such as Lisbeth, for instance, and no doubt many others. So did you know each other before you started blogging? Did you meet because of the Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-100033722002-02-22T07:04:00.000-08:002002-02-22T07:04:45.093-08:00Found this article on Knowledge Management through blogs while searching for something else.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-99985312002-02-22T03:36:00.000-08:002002-02-22T03:36:08.183-08:00Universitetsforlaget : Om Universitetsforlaget Jill: se nøye på dette.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-99963172002-02-22T01:03:00.000-08:002002-02-22T01:03:30.520-08:00dust.from.a.distant.sun. Tinka is "blogsitting", and she, quite justified, I think, wonders what a blog-sitter does. According to Dennis, the owner of the blog, the job-description is: "Oh, just post some semi-interesting stuff you would not post on your own site. I'm not fussed". This indicates that the news-aspect of the blog is more important than the subjective/personal aspect. It's more Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-99602412002-02-21T05:32:00.000-08:002002-02-21T05:32:45.360-08:00eNarrative.org: Hypertext, Narrative, Flash, Time looking around with google for links to this blog, I found this program. If they plan to read our blogs to prepare, I bet they will be talking about very interesting topics!Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-99589422002-02-21T04:25:00.000-08:002002-02-21T04:25:10.776-08:00Just slipping this link in here, so we'll find what I wrote about the deleted cockroaches. The recent whining about the quality of blogging, combined with the peer review project is interesting. It makes me wonder: are there really that many bad blogs out there? That should be checked somehow. We should find a way to look at random blogs, have some criteria for "good" and then see if we Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-99370852002-02-20T14:27:00.000-08:002002-02-20T14:27:38.993-08:00I've gotten all confused about where I'm posting stuff. Now the article's finished (though I think we should add a paragraph about the latest developments in the Jenkins affair (He deleted "cockroaches", as Torill commented, and earlier I wrote about the power balance between writer and people being written about) - uh, now the article's finished I'm posting more at jill/txt and then I think it Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-99368302002-02-20T14:20:00.000-08:002002-02-20T14:20:19.533-08:00Dave Winer to Wired: Winer added that the technology behind weblogging still needs to get significantly easier for the real talent to come online. "What I'm interested in is the doctors and professors and engineers and people who have a good education and a social area of expertise. We need to really reach those people, we have to go a couple of levels in terms of ease-of-use." Sad, really, isn'tJillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-99207402002-02-20T06:15:00.000-08:002002-02-20T06:15:58.690-08:00ramble, rant, rave: Eating lemons and liking it. Sophisticated linkslutting.... she has a function that displays recent links to booboolina. And so, I can link to her an others will follow this link here and be trapped in this fascinating academic environment. And I found it by way of Hilde, who's already on the list.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-98112112002-02-17T02:06:00.000-08:002002-02-18T07:49:44.000-08:00Cameron Marlow, whose PhD project at the MIT Media Lab is Blogdex, has a personal blog, overstated, which has lots of good info about the way he thinks about the social network explorer, blogdex, etc etc etc. Among other things, he's using the data from Blogdex to work out where memes originate, who starts using them, and he relates this to their place in the social network of blogs as determinedJillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-98110782002-02-17T01:53:00.000-08:002002-02-18T01:14:38.000-08:00Here's what we've written for the essay about Henry Jenkins' weblog article. Oh, and the article will be published online simultaneously with its print publication; all by the University of Oslo. I'm glad it'll be online. It's important that this kind of academic paper is easily available. As we were finishing this paper, a brief article on weblogs ‘Blog This’, was published by Henry Jenkins, Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-97902692002-02-16T10:45:00.000-08:002002-02-16T11:24:15.000-08:00While this isn't a very academic look at blogs (I had to make the link go from that. I'm sorry, I'm being naughty, but I really want that on the front page of Blogdex as one of the phrases linking to the article... asking for trouble really, aren't I), it is written by a prominent academic: Henry Jenkins. Dave Winer's not impressed, and takes offense at being called a cockroach. Jenkins isn't Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-97898692002-02-16T10:32:00.000-08:002002-02-16T11:01:02.000-08:00Rebecca Blood, who wrote that excellent article on the history of blogging, has a book out on blogs; or rather, she will have in June 2002. It's already listed with amazon: Rebecca Blood: We've Got Blog: How Weblogs are Changing Our Culture. At the same time, The Weblog Handbook: A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Your Own Blog will be published - in paperback. Hm. Soon there'll be a Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-97551712002-02-15T05:16:00.000-08:002002-02-15T05:16:50.076-08:00We are beyond 10 000 words now. The upper limit we worried that we ought to almost make ( aiming for 8500-9500 words) is way back there. We have to stop adding stuff, or we'll be writing something way beyond the format of the articles for this conference.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-97287732002-02-14T11:56:00.000-08:002002-02-14T11:56:35.943-08:00The popularity of permalinks are a wonderful example of the thoroughness of blogs; most bloggers really do care that references should be exact and that sources should be openly available. This is an interesting similarity to academic writing, but without the rigorous dance of ritual forms - the link takes the erudite show-offishness out of citation but keeps the honesty of it.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-97286952002-02-14T11:54:00.000-08:002002-02-14T11:54:13.923-08:00In his vlog, Adrian has a nice summary of a difference writing in a blog rather than for publication or in a more ephemeral online environment: what is novel is the tone that i'm adopting. ordinarily when i write in any text app that is not visibly online (email, html or MOOs my tone is quite different. authorial, authoritative, academic, scholarly, teacherly (yeah, right), and various other 'Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-97195732002-02-14T06:06:00.000-08:002002-02-14T07:56:13.000-08:00This is ancient (1998!) and about homepages, not blogs, and I haven't actually read it yet, but I think it's where I found that "writing oneself" expression I use in the paper that I didn't have a reference for. I'll have to read it a bit more before deciding whether it's really worth using.Chandler, Daniel (1998): Personal Home Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web An older versionJillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-97188882002-02-14T05:38:00.000-08:002002-02-14T05:38:51.436-08:00Jill, stop procrastinating or I'll spank you. That's not an idle threat!Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96859162002-02-13T09:16:00.000-08:002002-02-13T09:16:47.010-08:00We were talking about the various awards the other day, and how they're set up by individuals basically declaring themselves as an expert. Though they do invite general voting, the nominations are predetermined, I think. Here's an interview with Nikolai Nolan, who runs the Bloggies. WriteTheWeb: Deconstructing blogging: Nikolai Nolan (Deconstructing seems to be a very hip word)Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96793392002-02-13T05:22:00.000-08:002002-02-13T05:22:36.383-08:00I am in footnote/endnote hell.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96789582002-02-13T05:02:00.000-08:002002-02-13T05:02:30.853-08:00"From the isolated splendour of ivory towers within the labyrinth of Universities and research-centres, one path to independence of a structure where even system criticism reinforces the power of the system is through breaking out of the pattern: to embrace the form which does not confirm the authority. However, according to Bourdieu, the system will embrace that rebellion quicker than you can Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96780572002-02-13T04:08:00.000-08:002002-02-14T01:55:49.000-08:00I am posting this here as well, Jill, because this is one of the things you were mentioning Sunday, and I just found this while looking for something else: Pierre Bourdieu: Distinction, A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste: The contradictions or paradoxes to which ordinary language classifications lead do not derive, as all forms of positivism suppose, from some essential inadequacy of Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96752972002-02-13T00:43:00.000-08:002002-02-13T00:43:16.793-08:00Weblogg-Ed By way of Mark Bernstein, a site on using weblogs in education. Thanks, Mark.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96474772002-02-12T09:19:00.000-08:002002-02-12T09:19:24.433-08:00We should remember that blogs tend to lead to physical, real life gatherings: blogger meetings. See the blogs of Francis Strand and Tinka, they are meeting in Copenhagen.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96407482002-02-12T05:07:00.000-08:002002-02-12T05:07:13.430-08:00Bouncing the text back to Jill: we need to be more explicit on how this is useful in research - I also think we should change the title and remove the bloggign as method, replacing it with blogging as tool. With that I run to a meeting, 15 minutes late but almost half-way through the text. And the foot-note/endnote system is a mess.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96393632002-02-12T03:41:00.000-08:002002-02-16T11:56:09.000-08:00In an interview, Evan Williams defines blogs thusly: To me, the blog concept is about three things: Frequency, Brevity, and Personality. These are the three characteristics that I believe are the driving factors in weblogs' popularity as a publishing format. This clarification has evolved over time, but I realized early on that what was significant about blogs was the format -- not the content. Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96387062002-02-12T02:56:00.000-08:002002-02-12T03:19:09.000-08:00This Pyra Timeline is a pretty good starting point and overview for reviewing the history of Blogger.com and weblogs around it. Also mentions of the A-list, which is basically people connected to people who were involved with Blogger and Pyra, the company who made Blogger. Also, here's an interview with Ev where he says a little bit about the start: also noted in Ev's own blog, 23 August 1999.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96370012002-02-12T00:55:00.000-08:002002-02-12T00:55:27.046-08:00Biz Stone: Keeping a Professional Blog Here's his essay on keeping a professional blog. Definitely not text-book material, but fun reading.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96362652002-02-12T00:07:00.000-08:002002-02-12T00:12:54.000-08:00A bloke called Biz Stone is writing a book about weblogs, and as one should in such circumstances, he's keeping a blog to go with it. The title of the book is Weblog: The New Home Page. He's only just started and it's unclear what his angle is going to be, but his other work is "Industry Articles, Product Reviews, and Essays" (with a really obnoxious tagline) so I imagine it's unlikely to be an Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96047832002-02-11T05:04:00.000-08:002002-02-11T05:04:23.660-08:00Really bad blogs...Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96022322002-02-11T02:07:00.000-08:002002-02-11T02:07:09.540-08:00dust.from.a.distant.sun. Tinka mentions why she likes to read web-logs: topics, originality and elegance of phrase.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96002332002-02-10T23:49:00.000-08:002002-02-10T23:49:27.513-08:00Fortune.com - The Readers' Corner Personal accounts on professional topics. Both this and the previous link from the Blogger homepage.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-96001902002-02-10T23:46:00.000-08:002002-02-10T23:46:27.636-08:00The Blog Phenomenon Article on personal online diaries.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-95724712002-02-10T03:06:00.000-08:002002-02-10T03:49:06.000-08:00Collecting links, formatting the bibliography to an amazingly old-fashioned footnote system with no descriptions of how to refer to electronic sources - Chicago style, humanities version. Torill's writing a critique of just this. Other links we need to keep track of: Newslog at the BBC, an example of how professional media use blogs. And that article by someone called Deconstructing You Got Blog Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-94900942002-02-07T13:42:00.000-08:002002-02-07T13:42:39.670-08:00Jill will be along soon - tomorrow night I'll be picking her up at the ariport. I need five more pages before that, in order for us to have something to edit, reject and rewrite. It's getting closer to midnight, the kids are in bed and I am doing a bad job of translating a text which is already translated from german to norwegian into english. I think I'll wait until the library opens tomorrowTorillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-94899672002-02-07T13:38:00.000-08:002002-02-07T13:38:56.106-08:00Yes, I think it can be done. The blog can be compared to the french Salon, being empowered and energised by the ambivalence of existing between the public authority and the private sphere: personal, but not private, public, but with no more authority than the individual uttering the statement.Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-94744432002-02-07T04:37:00.000-08:002002-02-07T04:37:18.566-08:00Online Journalism ReviewTorillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-94738082002-02-07T04:04:00.000-08:002002-02-07T04:04:40.000-08:00More on Plastic.com and the visions of what it can be - am I the only one hearing Jurgen Habermas and even Berthold Brecht in the background here? "Part of my job," Carl wrote in the last e-mail he sent me the day after we met, "I think, is to make Plasticians more aware of their collective worth, and how an ad hoc organization can lead to the empowerment of the individual, Star Trek: The Next Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-94736072002-02-07T03:51:00.000-08:002002-02-07T03:51:29.733-08:00The story of Plastic - is this blogging from the wrong end? Users as writers - but too much (non-existant) money put into editing them? But the second half of that live collaboration, the premise as promise, set Plastic apart. Stories wouldn't merely be posted by users, they would be selected by the best editors to be found across the whole of the World Wide Whatever. Billions of billions of Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-94321102002-02-06T00:54:00.000-08:002002-02-06T00:55:45.000-08:00I am in Ulsteinvik, on Ulstein Hotel at the moment, where they generously let me use the office computer so I could blog this to Jill: Blogging for others: blogging in the public sphere a) The net, the news and the blogger - News on the net: fighting for the audience - Democratic ideals and rational discourse - Public space expanded: personal publication b) Academics and Audiences - Myths of Torillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198649.post-94293022002-02-05T22:18:00.000-08:002002-02-05T22:18:36.173-08:00Thinking with one's fingers was not invented with word processing or with blogs. E.M. Forster had the same experience: "How do I know what I think until I see what I say?" I'm re-reading Michael Heim's interesting philosophical approach to word processing, written in 1987 and dealing extensively with the ways in which changed tools for writing change our ways of thinking. He builds on Ong and Jillnoreply@blogger.com