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 Better tools and educative marketing
Jon Udell | OSCOM 2003 | Introduction [via Roland Tanglao: KLogs] (bold is mine)Some lessons you learned in grade school:One more point for my discussion with Sebastian about tools and social conventions: one of weblogs challenges is to help the majority to learn how to write for the web. This is also related with "better tools and educative marketing" points of my BlogTalk presentation, but I guess I have to write more on it to make it clear. [A bit related: Content Creation for Average People] More on: BlogTalk paper
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Weblogs, personal voice and digital apprenticeship
A weblog does not have to include a first person voice, but I think that it becomes much less when it does not. I believe that a weblog is a concept that has become much more than simply the tools used to post chronologically-ordered HTML entries. A weblog is a manifestation of an individual voice. There will always be a place for sterile, scholarly dissertations, but I guarantee I won't look forward to reading them on my lunch break. If I can listen to you, however, talk about something you're doing...something that is going on in your life, chances are I can learn from you. And that IS something I'll look forward to reading at lunch... In other words, weblogging is about open digital apprenticeship. More on: better blogging
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Friday, May 30, 2003|
Finding time for blogging
Maria reflects about time for blogging: When blogging is not part of your work it is sometimes difficult to make good partitions in your time. To find time for blogging is often connected with some compromises. The choice between blogging during working hours or blogging when your family waits for you can't be made easily. This could be true... I'm getting more and more convinced that personality is important for blogging. One more question to add if I do a follow-up of my BlogTalk paper. [See also personal characteristics that support blogging] More on: bloggers BlogTalk paper
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Overloaded...
There are too many interesting things in my news aggregator, too many ideas that want to be written down in my head and too much work to finish before I go on vacation. I guess I have to learn how to let ideas go without trying to catch them. If they worth it they would come back. Please, expect light blogging next three days and then silence for two weeks. I'm going to switch off Radio, so I won't even try to post :) More on: life
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Wednesday, May 28, 2003|
Between bloggers and their employers
A lot of thinking about problems that could happen between bloggers and their employers by Joshua Allen [via Serious Instructional Technology] As long as your company views your blogging as "you chatting with your neighbors on your personal time", you pose little risk. But the more that co-workers, CEOs, and so on are on-record as being cool with blogs, the more that blogs take on the timbre of being "official". The more "official" that blogs are, the more perceived risk the company takes on by allowing you to blog. And neither you nor your CEO is really keen to make things more complicated than they need to be. And this is why, IMO, you see most companies and employees today still dancing around the issue of employee blogs and seemingly settling on a "don't ask, don't tell, and please for the love of God don't do anything stupid" policy. Is it something to face? More on: blogs in business
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BlogTalk: follow-up citations
I'm not finished with BlogTalk follow-up writing, I only have a lot of work... So, before I post more, I have some pointers to others. On live conference blogging, digital divide and echo chambers Here's the scene: Those with laptops and wireless internet connections were clicking away on their keyboards (although the network collapsed Saturday afternoon), and those with pens and paper, myself included, were scribbling and doodling. The digital division was made all the more visible by the fact that access to the power points meant that the live bloggers (photo credit: Heiko Hebig) were almost all arrayed around the podium, and those who were just looking and listening were arranged behind them in the remaining seats. Steve Cayzer (see this page for the notes as well) Well, I've just spent the afternoon blogging my notes at blogTalk. One thing's for sure, I sit on the side of the live bloggers. Sure, I understand Maria's concern about concern for the presenter ("Don't blog me, I'm real") but as Kieran says maybe it's just a matter of adjustment, Personally, I had no problem with it. Although maybe the people I fondly imagined were real time blogging my talk were catching up on their email. Or playing quake. As Lilia says, "blogging by 2-3 people is enough to provide quite good summary of what is going on". However, I find my own notes invaluable and I have to write a trip report anyway - so why not blog it? If anyone else finds them useful, that's great. David Weinberger in Learning from echoes: Echo chambers definitely do exist. Sometimes they exist precisely in order to solidify opinion. But not every case of homogeneity is an echo chamber. Because we can only understand the new in terms of the familiar (which is the same as saying that understanding means placing something in context), agreement is the ground on which learning can occur. On business blogging Heiko Hebig (bold is mine) Corporate blogging: It really comes down to change management. Getting employees to blog is nothing different than getting them used to work with content management systems and/or intranets. It's about empowerment, it's about delegation, and it's about having the courage to drop yet another Internet buzzword inside a corporate environment that once saw it's share price double because it registered a funny .com domain name. Some CTOs or Managers will understand the potential value of weblogs and use them wisely, other will not care. The success of their company will not depend on whether or not it starts blogging. Their personal career will (very likely) not depend on weblogs, either. However, weblogs might make some tasks a lot easier. And weblogs certainly help people to network. If you believe in the power of (business) networks, weblogs should be on your agenda.About real-life people Conversations are the most important part of any conference. In that sense it was a shame that delays in the program were compensated by cutting down on breaktimes. However interesting the presentations, and most of them were, I would have welcomed more individual face to face time during the day. The fact that at the last evening noone seemed able to detach himself from the group, and everybody stayed on till 4:30 in the morning to continue the conversations, totally unaware of their surroundings, supports this feeling. To get a better feeling about people you may check Portraits by Oliver Wrede, collection of pointers to BlogTalk photos by Maria or Selected quotes by Haiko Hebig. And, finally, remember that real-life people are interested in cakes and not only in knoweldge management :) all the knowledge management in the world can not help you find cake in downtown Vienna at 1 am. I was there. It wasn't the question of a simple cake, Lilia needed a "torte". That's the problem... :) Do you want to know about my main outcome of BlogTalk? My RSS subscription list is exploding. It's all about people... More on: BlogTalk
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Tuesday, May 27, 2003|
New blog: Mathemathantic by Bill Dueber
This is not me, but another blog - Mathemathantic by Bill Dueber [via Serious Instructional Technology] Mathemathanic means something totally opposite to Mathemagenic: Richard Clark, coined the term twenty years ago as a play on words. From “thantos”, death, it’s used to describe an instructional intervention that makes you dumber than you were before. It's nice to see new edublog, the name is funny, but I'm afraid that it will be too easy to confuse us...
Later: Because of this post Bill is thinking about changing his weblog title. I don't think that it's a good idea: that's true that people can be confused, but this is an opportunity for a story like the one Heiko Hebig and Haiko Hebig have :))) More on: blog new
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Blogologue about blogologue
Several related stories [via many in my news aggregator] 1. Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story: Through a study of 45 blogosphere stories, Microdoc News has developed a picture of how a blogosphere story gets started, how that story develops and then how it then comes to an end. While each blogosphere story has its own pattern of development, the similarities between one story and another is intriguingly similar. The smallest blogosphere stories can have as few as fifteen bloggers, the average story has between 40 and 60 bloggers, while the largest one to date had about 285 bloggers involved. A blogosphere story can be as small as 180 posts in total, while the largest we studied has numbered 7,540 posts in total. [see also Sylvie Noël on their research method and later Practical Considerations in Tracing a Blogosphere Story] They describe stories as an interplay between four types of blog posts: This story goes on describing the how blogosphere stories start, grow and die. Even a summary would be too long, so I leave it to your own reading. The bottom line is blogs cannot be read in isolation from each other. Blog stories are understood and appreciated in aggregate and not in isolation. 2. Googlewashed Revisited: Shape of a Blogologue provides an example of one story, discusses "multiple ends" of many stories and could be relations between mainstream media and blogoshpere. Should mainstream media understand how blogging works, and how collective journalism works, they should encourage their journalists to participate in building these collective stories, as when a journalist has participated in building a story in this manner, a more complete and authoritative article could be built with dozens of sources, votes, reactions and opinions are available through this process. 3. Discussion and citation in the blogoshpere by Tom Coates This article provides good visiaul comparision of conversations in threaded discussions and weblogs. He also compares blogging conversations with Kuhn's paradigm shifts [see also Tom's earlier post on How do we find information in the Blogosphere? and his later post on On parallels with academic citation networks] 4. Following a Collectively Constructed Blogstory traces and decomposed the discussion followed by the first article At this moment I'll keep it as a collection of links, but I guess I'll be back to it one day. More on: blog ecosystem blogging conversations
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Monday, May 26, 2003|
Relational qualities that promote effective knowledge sharing
This is something that was on my "to blog" list for a long time: Knowing what we know: Supporting knowledge creation and sharing in social networks by Rob Cross, Andrew Parker, Laurence Prusak and Stephen P. Borgatti and earlier white paper with the same title. These papers describe studies focused on analysing characteristics that promote effective knowledge sharing and then using those characteristics in social network analysis. Both papers are worth reading. The white paper provides a better overview of the study on characteristics of effective knowledge sharing. The journal article is more polished and packed with practical examples of SNA. Relational characteristics that promote effective knowledge sharing (research method described in the white paper; the following citations are from the journal article, page 105):
Knowing what someone else knows (even if we are initially inaccurate and calibrate over time) is a precursor to seeking a specific person out when we are faced with a problem or opportunity. For other people to be options we must have at least some perception of their expertise.
However, knowing that someone else knows is only useful if you can get access to their thinking in a sufficiently timely fashion. Access is heavily influenced by the closeness of one's relationships as well as physical proximity, organisational design and collaborative technology.
People who are helpful in learning interactions actively thinking with the seekers and engage in problem solving. Rather than dump information, these people first understand the problem as experiences by the seeker and then shape their knowledge to the problem at hand.
Finally, those relationships that are safe are often most effective for learning purposes. Being able to admit a lack of knowledge or to diverge in a conversation often results in creativity and learning. Simple, powerful and research-based. Must-read for knowledge managers and interesting as a framework to think about weblogs as an environment for knowledge sharing. [Sebastian, this is about knowledge sharing in a broader sense and includes learning side of it. I am curious to know if you can relate it to your research on weblogs and learning] |
Sunday, May 25, 2003|
BlogTalk: back home
Ok, I'm back home, I posted all pieces I had written on my way back home and finally I can catch up with sleeping :) This was a great experience! I suspect that my "reflection" posts can create a totally different impression, but they are an attempt to understand what was happening at BlogTalk. Thomas and his team - thank you for making it real. See you on-line. More on: BlogTalk
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Writing books for managers
This is something totally different: some ideas from talking with Phil Wolff and Martin Roell on Friday night. Phil talked about two types of books for managers. One is a thin "vision" book. It usually has one main idea ("message") in it, so it seeds certain idea in manager's head. The second type is thick "how to do it" book. It provides case-studies, lessons learnt and implementation guidelines. Managers usually do not read these books, they give them to specialists who are supposed to implement the idea. |
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Blogging echo chambers
Probably not blogging gave me some time for more thinking :) At the end of the day I realised that we've got a quite good understanding of our viewpoints, but have no idea what people in the audience think. It was strange to have rich discussion between panellists and few other bloggers and almost no comments and questions from other people. I even don't have good idea who they were and what do they think about blogging. Before not having access to others' feedback was fine, but once I realised that I have ways to get them because they are blogged, I've got a strong feeling of loss of impressions of people who were not blogging. It's like getting feedback only from one - biased - part of the audience. Yesterday I asked not bloggers to comment on the conference, but it wasn't very successful. The funniest thing is that at the end I started to feel like agreeing with Denham Grey about self-referencing in the blogosphere. Blogging accelerates shared understanding and consensus building, but at the same time it amplifies it's own sound. At the end it's so strong that voices of not bloggers are not heard. One may argue with Rebecca Blood's talk about the danger of group think in the blogosphere, but yesterday I could feel that we were in echo chamber. More on: BlogTalk
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BlogTalk: why I wasn't blogging
For me this was the first conference blogged for many people in real time, so I had to discover my way of doing it. A couple of times before I was the one blogging and I did it mainly in reporting style. I started the same way blogging BlogTalk, but I was also adding links to other bloggers. Very soon I realised that this was a bit stupid: blogging by 2-3 people is enough to provide quite good summary of what is going on (presentations and papers are on-line too, so if someone is not happy with summaries there is always something better). Next to it we went into discussing "don't blog me – I'm real" issue, so I also didn't feel like blogging. I also found that during this conference I was even more lazy. It was not only "why reporting if there are others doing it", but also "why making photos if many others make them almost real time with their digital cameras". More on: BlogTalk
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Real-time conference blogging: reporting vs. reflecting
I'm sitting in the plane on my way back from Vienna. I wasn't posting from yesterday's morning. The network was down in the afternoon and evening/night face-to-face time was too valuable to go on-line. So these are some of the yesterday's impressions revised and reflected while talking with many people late at night. I think that there are two modes of conference blogging: reporting and reflecting. Reporting provides a summary of a presentation/discussion with a bit of impressions. Reflection goes deeper to analyse what was said and to build on it (Phil Wolff also distinguished between "three levels of reflection" and "twenty levels of reflection"). Dan Gillmor provided a great example of impact that real-time conference reporting can have. He blogged about an executive presenting and soon received a comment pointing that this guy was playing with a company stocks. This was posted as well and had an impact of an audience reactions to the presentation. Another example was about real-time corrections after he posted misinterpreted summary of presenter's words. This mode of conference blogging is not really different from note-taking, it's only about changing medium and making notes available for others. The best of real-time conference reporting comes from the opportunity to provide reacher feedback. But it's also requires that presentations are more-or-less long and that a blogger has substantial number of readers reading his blog real time. Reflecting mode of conference blogging is different. I believe that reflection requires more attention than reporting, so if you do it real-time you tend to switch from active listening and participating in a discussion to your own thinking. This is provides much richer ground for a conversation, but I doubt that it can have real-time impact (because in most of the cases discussion will move faster than your writing). It may be more valuable to formulate your emerging reflective ideas as a question and ask it. From one side a conference gets an on-line mirror with many people posting, commenting and linking to each other. This mirror can change and enhance the conference reality (using Gilbert's words – it can direct reality). From another side, the process of creating and supporting this mirror takes our attention and energy, so we have less energy for creating the reality that mirror is supposed to reflect. This is an interesting and very strange phenomena. I agree with others that conference blogging is there to stay like SMSing during lectures. I agree that it can make our experiences more interesting by providing a real-time mirror. Still, I feel that rich discussions require our attention and that it's quite stupid to change opportunities of talking to real people into virtual conference. At the end our face-to-face time is limited and blogs are there for long. More on: BlogTalk
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Saturday, May 24, 2003|
BlogTalk: day 2
I don't feel like live blogging today. I we have discussed with Sebastian: it's hard to be immersed in a activity and reflect on that. I don't feel like purely reporting and there are many others who do that. I want to reflect, but this is something that takes more attention. We had three main themes running this morning:
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Don't blog me - I'm real
It's strange that so many people are blogging live. Many are struggling to find a balance between the pleasure of listening to real person, writing and following other writing at the same time. Do we change the fun of real-life communicating for virtual reflection on it. This is something to think about. As Maria said "don't blog me - I'm real". [Please, see some clarifications at the end of this post]
Later: Maria posted almost in the same time "don't blog me - I'm real": I quit live blogging.
Later (26 May) You may think that I was not happy with people blogging my talk instead of listening. This is not true - I don't feel any difficulty with it. My feelings could be better described as "why blog if we can talk" question. I tried to discuss it in Real-time conference blogging: reporting vs. reflecting and BlogTalk: why I wasn't blogging More on: BlogTalk
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Friday, May 23, 2003|
BlogTalk: an overview of discussions
I wasn't posting about the discussions at the end of each panel: I was in the listening mode. To get an impression about issues we discussed by Kieran Shaw ...the general consensus seems to be that it is hard to get people blogging unless there is an obvious benefit to the individual to do so. We need to make blogging socialable and fun first, and then gently move them into education without them knowing it." |
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BlogTalk: who owns narrated experiences?
The question that came into my mind: what happens with your ideas that you posted to a weblog inside certain boundaries (e.g corporate blog or course blog) after you leave these boundaries. Both Martin and Sebastian suggest that it should be your property and you have to be able to take it with you as your own learning resource. Ideally, I would say the same, but I don't think that it's going to happen easily in practice. Companies and educational institutions are recognising that they could benfit from aggregating ideas produced by people (e.g. course assignments from previous courses could be reused in a new course). An individual knowledge worker, from other hand, wants to have access to his own thought, may be throughout his whole life. This is not interesting for a company (it's competitive advantage!) and it should be ideal educational institution to take care of it (at the end no any educational institution is responsible to your own life-long learning). In one paper knoweldge workers were addressed as investors bringing their knowlegde for corporate use. This is good metaphor, but unlike real investors knowledge workers can not take their investment back. Even worse, if you leave treads of your knowledge work in corporate context they are likely to belong to a company (often copyrighted), so they in fact risk loosing some of their investments. In a long-term this could be a problem to weblogs adoption in a corporate context: I'm more motivated to write something down if I know that it stays with me and I can come back to it than if it's locked in a corporate knowledge management system or e-learning system (see more about motivation to post in order to keep track of your learning - Why I blog more than use discussion tools). This is also somehow related with the discussion on institutional versus personal speech by Ross Mayfield.
Later: some directions for solutions could be found by operationalising ideas of Andrius Kulikauskas on copyright. More on: BlogTalk motivation
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BlogTalk: Oliver Wrede about weblogs, learning, teaching and higher education
Oliver Wrede about weblogs, learning, teaching and higher education Oliver provides examples of using weblogs in teaching worth looking closer and many pointers to relevant ideas. Something to come back. Blogged by: More on: BlogTalk
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Everyone is blogging much lighter after the break :)
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BlogTalk: Martin Röll on weblogs in business
Martin Röll talks about weblogs in business This talk is funny, but Martin is talking about something really important: evolutionary introduction of weblogs in corporate settings. He proposes to start from examplary project log and than move slowly to individual knowledge logs. Martin says later that he also thought about interrelating intranet weblogs and internet weblogs. Going to catch him in the break. Blogged by: More on: BlogTalk
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BlogTalk: Sebastian Fiedler talks about uses of weblogs for learning
Sebastian Fiedler talks about uses of weblogs for learning I'm not going to write a lot about it: Sebastian has posted his paper, Weblogging as a reflective conversational tool for self-organized learning, we discussed it on-line and off-life. The presentation is well crafted to represent originally complicated ideas. I'll probably go back to it and post summaries of some slides. Blogged by: More on: BlogTalk
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BlogTalk: Maria Milonas speaks about blogs in Poland
Maria Milonas speaks about blogs in Poland. Some highlights:
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BlogTalk: Hossein Derakhshan on Iranian weblogs
"Weblogs, an Iranian perspective" by Hossein Derakhshan Hossein present some specific characteristics of Persian weblogs. I find especally interesting connections between characterisctics of blogging and social situation in Iran. Yesterday Hossein said he wanted to do research on social aspects of blogging. I'm looking forward to it. Blogged by: More on: BlogTalk
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BlogTalk: people blogging it live
List of people blogging live by David Weinberger Azeem Azhar More on: BlogTalk
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BlogTalk: photos
Sebastian blogs some photos More on: BlogTalk
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BlogTalk: Ethan Eismann on topic weblogs and knowledge communities
Ethan Eismann talks about topic weblogs and knowledge communities. Ethan talk about best practices for topic blogs. I feel that this approach is a bit too formal. This could help if you want to use weblogs to discuss things with students or to create a formal channel on a topic for your customers. Still, it's worth checking the presentation for guidelines in case of implementing weblog focused on a topic in settings you can control (e.g. corporate blogging). The link should lead to the presentation, but so far it's broken. Blogged by: The "problem" I currently have with the notion of »topic weblogs«: Sometimes there are topics not clearly defined, with blurry edges, experts that even do not know that they would be considered an expert to that weblog. Would they find that weblog? Would they actually search? Would they be attracted? More on: blog ecosystem BlogTalk
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BlogTalk:Gernot Tscherteu, Christian Langreiter
"The blogosphere map" by Gernot Tscherteu, Christian Langreiter These two guys demonstrated a great tool that shows how topics travel around the blogosphere. The tool shows map of 400 weblogs and changing size red dots to show when topic is mentioned by a weblog. This looks like heart beating. The demo may be availiable on-line in a couple of weeks. I'm really looking forward. Blogged by: More on: BlogTalk
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BlogTalk: Andrius Kulikauskas on copyright
"The algebra of copyright" by Andrius Kulikauskas
I believe that the ideas behind this talk are important, but the language is too difficult for me to get through. I'm going to wait for practical implementations. Blogged by:
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BlogTalk: Steve Cayzer on semantic blogging
"Semantic blogging" by Steve Cayzer: "blogging is cool - but it could be even cooler" How could it be cooler?
More at Semantic blogging for for bibliographies project. Blogged by: More on: BlogTalk
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BlogTalk: David Weinberger
Presentation by David Weinberger. I will do only highlights.
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BlogTalk: open
Thomas Burg started BlogTalk conference with posting to the weblog. We have Internet connection, so stay tuned. See also live reports. More on: BlogTalk
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BlogTalk: started
Ok. Here are the news: I'm at BlogTalk sitting in a hotel late at night. Feels strange... I was reading Seb's PhD dissertation on my way to Vienna. It was interesting to see many points from his weblog taking more formal shape. I also found out that my weblog was one of case-studies described there. I'm going to read that part again and to use it as a mirror... In overall: I believe that there are a many good points/pointers that I can apply to my work. It is also good to see that weblogs are making it to the "serious" research, so they are more likely to be considered seriousely. BlogTalk. We had many random dinner discussions. It was much like blogging: local dialogues, joy of discovering similarities, jumping from topic to topic, but overall feeling of being connected. I'm happy to see people I got to know on-line and, of course, not-technology-mediated conversations are more efficient. More on: BlogTalk
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Thursday, May 22, 2003
End of RSSify
I recieve this for all weblogs that use RSSify to generate RSS feeds. Don't know what to do about it as I don't think that these people are technical enough to sort it out.22-May-03 Moving away from RSSify. RSSify is a rather horrible hack that shouldn't be needed any more. Please ask the owner of the site you're reading ([weblog link goes here]) to change to a system that generates RSS natively such as Blogger Pro or Movable Type. Alternatively consider hosting RSSify yourself rather than using my bandwidth. More on: better blogging
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Tuesday, May 20, 2003|
Why tool makers have to listen to feedback and institute social conventions
Simon Willison: Scripting.com, with added CSS [via Roland Tanglao: KLogs] One of the aims of this course is to show how relatively simple CSS can be used to make dramatic improvements to existing sites. Today, I'll show how CSS can be used to reduce the amount of code needed for a small part of the design of Scripting.com. I post this for two purposes: (1) I want to keep the reference for myself in case I find time to learn CSS. (2) I would like to use it as an argument in the discussion with Sebastian Fiedler about CSS, Radio templates and the role of sofware in promoting "good standards". Sebastian is not happy at all with amount of HTML codes in Dina's RSS and believes that if someone writes on the Web he or she should check some of the basic concepts of mark up. The concept of separate stlye sheets (CSS) and structural HTML is not really hard to understand... Anybody who has mastered her text processor should understand the concept right from the start. I guess that you would agree that knowing that using CSS is better than hard-coded formatting and being able to do it are different. As a user I know, but I do not want to learn CSS to be able to do it (I changed it in my weblog only because I've got help). At the end I guess that embedding CSS in Radio templates is easier than making many users like me learning CSS :) The problem is not in Microsoft, the problem is in Radio developers not thinking about it, so we have to rely on social conventions (see post+discussion about Quoting in Radio and Ross Mayfield comments to it). Coming back to the example in the beginning of this post: I think it illustrates that at least one person behind Radio does not consider using stylesheets important. This attitude is embedded in Radio templates and then multiplied in many weblogs. To make the point better I will cite Ross (bold is mine) The integrated aggregator was the reason I adopted Radio in the first place and remains its best feature. However, the design of the tool doesn't capture the concerns of use, fair use in this case, leading to the need for social convention. [...] Working on the BlogTalk paper I became even more convinced that blogging tools are not easy. And, as Dina says, this could be a huge entry barrier: honestly all i want to do is get on with the content and not be bothered by the formatting (i find i'm spending way too much time on it) ... and i do see such issues as a huge entry barrier for potential bloggers. Citing Brian Marick's review of Crossing the chasm once more: Pragmatists want a product that works. They are not interested in debugging it. They want to be able to hire people who've used it. They want to find books about it in the bookstore. If there's customization that's needed, they want to find third parties who can do it. Better yet, they want to buy third-party packages written for people just like them. In short, they don't just want a product. They want a 100% solution to their business problem. If they get the 80% that delighted the visionary, they feel cheated, and they tell their pragmatist friends. Do you want blogging epidemic? It's time to understand that it is not about inventing nice technologies. It's all about happy users. |
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Visualization of flows in social networks
Frederico Casalegno, Roberto Tagliabue, and Marco Susani presented an intriguing visualization of flows in social networks at last November's Doors of Perception [Smart Mobs] More on: social network mapping
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Monday, May 19, 2003|
The orange pill: Matt and Paolo are getting ready for BlogTalk
Matt Mover in k-collector recap:
It's Ross Mayfield who said "I took the orange pill", I just loved the methaphor (I went to see The matrix reloaded yesterday :) More on: BlogTalk k-collector
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A Socio-Technological Approach to Sharing Knowledge Across Disciplines
By popular demand (OK, OK, for the two of you who asked for it), here's an electronic version of my thesis (PDF, 4 Mb) which I defended in early May. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to compile the LaTeX source into a copy-pastable document (any tips on how to do that are welcome!). More on: blog research |
