Jon Lebkowsky [via Matt Mover]
Some of us are seeing weblogs as an early step in the evolution of the web (or, some say, a revolution in the way the web is used), and the general label for the stuff we’re talking about is “social software.” Social software supports group forming, an activity that wasn’t necessarily in the heads of the folks who created the first blog systems as simple content management, emphasizing individual publication. Blogs are evolving, though, as nodes in social networks, and bloggers are drawn to group-forming activities and software developments that emphasize the connections as well as the nodes. It’s possible to see blogs as a bunch of discrete publications that order random posts in reverse chronological order, but you get away from that pretty quickly when you get into the space and see what people are actually doing with their weblogs.
Synchronicity. Consistent with the results of blogging motivation and added value.
Tags: blog ecosystem, BlogTalk paper, synchronicityArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/05/01.html#a573; comments are here.
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