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 Slowly restoring connections to my network...
I'm slowly coming back to my regular life after travelling and brain vacation... Getting back to work is easy - deadlines are not waiting - but now I'm also starting to catch up with blogging. It feels good slowly sorting through unread subscriptions, making "there are no new things anymore" folders and getting good ideas from all people who have been writing. I guess I'm a bit like my Tablet - getting switched on, slowly restoring connections to my network, installing critical updates and taking time to download not so critical ones :) More on: blog reading
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Weblog by Inna Kouper and finding people writing about you
One more weblog to read - Working notes by Inna Kouper. Inna is a member of BROG (blog research on genre) group (more). I had a pleasure of exchanging e-mails with Inna, finding common Russian roots and watching her blog taking shape... There are some good article reviews in Inna's weblog, so I enjoyed reading for a while, but funny enough that my commenting was triggered by a relatively simple question: I got the first comment on one of my posts. I really wonder how people find out that I am writing about them. Originally I commented to the post, but then decided to copy it here as well. Could be interesting for others or for myself in retrospect. It's slightly edited and linked.
See also: For me blogging is about conversations (why looking for others writing about you), Finding blogs linking to a specific blog post: test results (more specific how-to) and Why looking at practices of blogging is important in weblog research (associative thinking :) More on: better blogging blog ecosystem blog new
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Monday, August 30, 2004|
BROG papers
Elijah Wright lists papers by BROG (blog research on genre) group: I'm posting these here for convenience's sake - and because it is really hard for people outside of our smallish research group to track what we've been up to. Just a few comments: 1. From my perspective the group is not that small :) 2. Links to the papers are missing (most of them are online!)... I may come back and add links to those I know, but don't have time at the moment. 3. Would love to read the HICSS 2005 paper... Especially as our own paper goes to the same track :) (It's on weblog conversations; conditionally accepted. I missed the moment to share draft; it doesn't make sense now as we are reworking it, but let me know if you don't want to wait.) More on: blog research
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Blogademia - weblog research blog by Scott Nowson
Another weblog research blog - Blogademia by Scott Nowson (via Torill Mortensen). Scott is doing PhD research on weblogs. More specific: What am I doing with blogs? To be even more specific: Scott is doing an experiment analysing one month's posts by native English speaking bloggers. Of course it's a pity that non-native speakers are excluded :) Curious to know more about the analysis method... Could be interesting to combine with things that Sigmund can do. More on: blog new blog research
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Thursday, August 26, 2004|
Mission accomplished
It's a very nice feeling to see people at their "mission accomplished" moment: relaxed, proud, happy, with a smile of a face and contagious feeling that missions could be accomplised. Elmine Wijnia finished her Masters. I'm not sure about the exact title in Dutch, but to get an impresstion in English check BlogTalk 2.0 abstract Understanding blogs: a communicative perspective or slides. It's about weblogs and Habermas, and Elmine knows well how to explain it in a language that normal people can understand :) Robert Slagter is done with his PhD research, Dynamic Groupware Services: Modular design of tailorable groupware. For a few month since Robert moved in a room next door I had many chances to observe his work through the last stage of his PhD, hard time writing and joy of finishing, happy face when the book arrived and preparations for the defense. It's a bit like learning from Jill's PhD journey, but this time more than online... It's a nice feeling - being able to congratulate friends with their achievements and getting more energy for my own work. So - Elmine, Robert - my congratulations! More on: PhD
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Blogs are smokescreens as much as windows
So someone wondered when I’d be moving to Paris to join my French boyfriend. Good grief. Must have been my I love Paris post set him off, don’t you think? Blogging has hazards I hadn’t even considered. I mean, sure, I love imagining surroundings for bloggers I enjoy reading, but I also realise that that’s where the boundary to fiction lies. Yes, what I blog is (mostly) true, but there is so much that I don’t blog that unless you know me, the idea you have of me from these words probably has more to do with fiction than reality. Your imaginings, not my world. I suspect blogs are smokescreens as much as windows. Sometimes I wonder what image of me and my life readers of this weblog get... But also how it changes when we meet or if we meet f2f frequently or if they know more of my personal stuff... Even how my image of myself differs from my images of my close friends and family :) Thinking of blogs as smokescreens: I guess it has something to do with squeezing yourself (and often only some of your multiple identities) through the narrow channel, so those who read it get somehow fragmented abstract art picture and have to reconstruct what is behind it... See also: Networking: YASNs vs. blogs on image of a person constructed from reading a weblog. Next day: couldn't resist to add a quote from a comment to Jill's post by Collin My blog is a window, but it’s only one window (of many) into the sprawling country mansion of my life, and it’s a window I only walk by when I’m in particular moods. If it’s the only window that some people know, it’s not that hard to imagine that those people would get certain ideas about me–that I think about academic stuff far more often than I actually do, that I spend less time fighting depression than I actually do, etc. Blogs tap into that desire that most of us have (as readers) to be insiders in other people’s lives, to strengthen our weak ties. More on: blog networking blog reading
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004|
On the road
Feels nice to be able to blog on the way. Now it's from B&B Edam-Volendam where the host was nice to let me into a house WiFi :) Joining Marc Canter's dinner tonight in Amsterdam. I guess it's still open for sign in, so may be see you there... More on: travel
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Friday, August 20, 2004|
Synchronising online and offline personal data
Martin picks up my yesterday's note about the need to change my usual "everything web-based" working style since I got TabletPC and explains his struggles and solutions for synchronising online and offline data. Given lots of interests we share it's not surprising that Martin reframes it as more general question: I wonder how Personal Information Management Software will develop in the future. How are we going to cope with the different spaces we are in and the accessibiloty of our online and offline data? Shall we just put everything on the web and hope for permanent broadband connectivity anywhere? (Nice idea, but how are you going to survive the next five years while this is not an option?) How are you managing your data? Where do you keep it? How do you make it accessible, for you, for others? I'd love to hear your thoughts as well. I guess it's not much about the software, but our ways of using it :) More on: personal knowledge management TabletPC
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Thursday, August 19, 2004|
On being a geek and TabletPC
Although I still do not feel comfortable being percieved as a geek, now I start feeling a bit like one. I've got a TabletPC with lots of gadgets one may want :) It was a long time since I wanted a laptop of my own instead of taking one spare at work. I wanted it light and small and always connected. I tried PDA and it didn't work (too small and not functional enough for writing and finishing presentations in trains). There are enough people around to push me for a Mac (and watching SubEthaEdit during the BlogTalk 2.0 made it very tempting), but at the end Tablet won the battle. My main inspiration came from observing Martin Röll with his Tablet during various meetings for almost a year. The last "decision-making drop" came from Michael Hyatt's story of using TabletPC (found via Robert Scoble). I liked the idea of something that could be as non-obtrusive as paper... So, I've got my TravelMate. I don't know if it will fulfill the promise and if I'll be happy with it. I have to learn a lot and to rethink my usual working habits. I guess I have to change from my usual "everything web-based" style, that works well with different computers that do not move, into something else that gives a space for a machine that can travel with me and is not online all the time. But I like it a lot. Look and feel, changing between laptop and Tablet modes, wifi, drawing, typing and even voice recognition that recognises what I say in a very special way :), and fun of playing InkBall... And I liked the feeling of today's morning at FOAFcamp, feeling of being equipped with a good tool for doing what I wanted to do. You can call me geek if you want :) Finally: I'm looking for TabletPC blogs worth reading from a user perspective, so recommendations are welcome. More on: TabletPC
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Monday, August 16, 2004|
Back
I'm back from Moscow. Ate all raspberries within reach, had fun and got a TravelMate. Getting ready for lots of work... More on: life
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004|
Being hacked
Something strange has happend to my weblog - the backend was exposed for editing instead of being password-protected... Thanks for all who alerted me and that nice hacker who just revealed the thing and didn't do more damage :) Hope that I found the cause... At least it asks for the password now :) |
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This weblog is my learning diary. Sometimes I write about things related to my work, but the views expressed here are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
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