All in blogs
Some incomplete thinking: What happens to a topic-centric space as the interest of the participants shifts? Does this relate to categorization and folksonomy?
Is it me, or are there a heck of a lot of blogging and/or KM surveys coming out of late?
I used to regularly read the blog of "Ed Taekema - Road Warrior Collaboration," but it appears that the server on which his blog was based is dead. Ed are you out there somewhere?
Denham Grey and Paul Hartzog and I thinking about conversation and extending the social network.
Cutting Through points to a great paper on "Making virtual teams work." Trust is a huge aspect of any teams, and as this paper discusses, our ability to create and maintain trust in virtual environments is somewhat limited.
Gordon Müller-Seitz contacted me and asked that I both take this survey and let you all know about it. The survey is focused on corporate blogging (within the company), but most questions are focused on blogging and what you gain from it.
George Siemens talks about changes in the world of media in "Centering Agents." The beauty of the new publishing paradigm is that I can choose what and when I read new information.
I think the next generation of aggregators / rss readers needs to be better at managing the situation where I have both regular and search subscriptions that bring back the same articles. Here's one idea.
Christina Pikas has some thoughts and questions about the kinds of people for whom blogging works as personal information management. Can scientists jump onto the blogging bandwagon? Does it make sense?
I'm doing my end-of-month statistics, and I see in my error log that something has been trying to connect to individual entries in my weblog with mark-up in the URL's. It looks like a robot. But why?
Dina Mehta has written a piece about what blogs have done for her in the past three years. I have to agree with a number of her sentiments, but most critically "My blog has become my social network."
In case you haven't seen this potential tool, Spike Hall mentioned PurpleSlurple as a way to get better URL's in your writing, so that readers need not hunt around long pages to find a specific reference. Another Weblogging (and Knowledge-Making) Tool: Purpleslurple I add PurpleSlurple to the weblogging tools I find...
Thomas Vander Wal found an interesting article on a prototype e-notebook (not a lab notebook, software to record web-notes): Building a Web Based E-Notebook The Journal of Digital Information has an article on Implementation Challenges Associated with Developing a Web-based E-notebook by Yolanda Jacobs Reimer and Sarah A. Douglas. This Journal...
Lee LeFever has been trying to figure out how to get better recognition for his business via his blog, Common Craft. Case Study: Using a Weblog to Achieve #1 Rankings in Google This is a case study documenting best practices in using a weblog to achieve #1 rankings in Google. Below...
Sorry about the lack of posts lately. My machine had a meltdown, and I am just getting back up to speed....
The email issue appears to be fixed. Don't know quite what the hiccup was, but I lost about two days' worth of incoming mail....