Finally, I’ve got the reviews for my abstract on weblogs and knowledge work for OKLC04. It is accepted, but one of the reviewers was more negative than positive and also suggested that I missed some relevant references:
There exist extensive studies on evaluating weblogs as a basis for suggestions to improve the knowledge transfer. These studies have not been cited. For example the group of T. Hermann at Dortmund University has done a lot of research in this area (http://iugsun.cs.uni-dortmund.de/publications/publications/inhalt/)
I checked the suggested publications, but didn’t find explicit pointers to weblog studies (I still have to check the papers in more depth). Is there someone who knows about this research? I would appreciate any pointers or background information.
This comment made me thinking in more general way about difficulties of finding publications on weblog research:
- I suspect that weblogs are addressed with more “serious-looking” terms, like “personal webpublishing”
- It’s not easy to predict in what type of conference/journal weblog research will be published: could be anything between internet studies, education or e-business
- It seems that some weblog researchers do not have weblogs themselves, so the information about their work do not get to the blogosphere. Or sometimes they have weblogs in languages I don’t understand :(
That’s why I feel bad about luck of coordination between people doing research on weblogs. Back to work…
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