BlogTalk 2.0: Mark

by Lilia Efimova on July 5, 2004

Mark Bernstein talked The Social Physics of New Weblog Technologies. Inspiring and very much “hypertext” talk where slides live their own life independently from the talk.

Some highlights (I’m not going to write detailed notes anyway :)

  • So far much of weblog research has been trying to convince the academy that weblogs matter. Why not conduct research that matters to weblogs?
  • “There is nothing on my PR radar what it more important than blogosphere.”
  • Fast feedback loop…
  • Does blogging changes writers? How?
  • Research methods: don’t reach for the obvious…
    • Fast feedback loop
    • client-side architectures – ideal for habits
    • server-side architectures – ideal for spontaneity
  • Studying practices: daily writing – habit – personal tools
  • Going beyond studying novices?
  • How much weblog costs: labor is the main costs? Understanding weblog economy
  • Ethnography of flame wars
    • “If you miss an opportunity to do ethnography the only thing you can do is archaeology”
  • Simulation studies on blogrolls; how weblog have resisted evolving to broadcast
    • “habitual linking practices”
  • “Today’s news wrap tomorrow’s fish”… what is a way to engage our archives into continues conversations
  • This post also appears on channels BlogTalk and weblog research

    Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/05.html#a1258; comments are here.

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