In case you haven’t seen it yet: BlogTalk is reloaded.

Why reloading BlogTalk!

Because it’s time for a conference that slows down the speed of picking up memes.
What we need – I think – is time to develop a meaning and concepts of what’s going on in our society in relation to the web and its tools.
We need to take a break from those 5 minutes of speed-talks about things that fascinate us but disguise themselves in the moment we kinda invoke them.
Thinking of BlogTalk (t d f) I imagine an inspired crowd of people on the panels and in the audience that reformulate the tools and the use-cases of it in those two days – we need to feedback from users to developers and vice versa.
To do that we need time to prepare for that.
Not quick shots.
Carefully drafted considerations, prototypes and cases.
We need to stop the time for 2 days.

Call for papers is online, submissions are due to 1 April 2006.

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• BlogTalk 2.0: Panel 3
• BlogTalks book

Good news – BlogTalk 2.0 papers are available as a book at Amazon.de or at Libri. Links to online versions of papers are here (if you are one of the authors make sure you add yours).

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Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/02/23.html#a1504; comments are here.

• Weblog reader
• Weblogs vs. journals
• Directory of weblog research

Thomas Burg (via Martin Roell)

BTW: since many people asked about that. There will be no BlogTalk 3.0. I’m thinking of something broader and different. So I’m looking forward that someone will step forward to organize the next international weblog-conference.

Wondering:

• if there is a need for a specific conference on weblogs in Europe?
• what is that ”broader and different” that Thomas has in mind? :)

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Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/11/22.html#a1437; comments are here.

• Tools to find similarity between two texts (weblog and papers)
• CFP: Organisational Blogs: Opportunities and Challenges
• PhD dissertation on implementing blogs in manufacturing environment

Ideas and presentations from conferences I visited, somehow connected with the theme of presence (see other themes).

From examples to theory

The blog as an immersive space: Moblogging Jokkmokk 2004 by Stephanie Hendrick and Therese Örnberg at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, handout, notes by Stephanie Hendrick, Therese Oernberg, wiki notes
• bringing theory to analyse presence and co-presence in blogs, something that brings bloggers into a shared space
• event blogging

‘Live’-writing: weblogs and the coverage of reality by Lisbeth Klastrup at BlogTalk

• abstract, wiki notes
• blogging as a reality show: what makes it that way?

Insights for tools

Ideas from MILK: multimedia interactions for learning and knowing project

• co-presense over multiple environments: desktop, mobile, large screens

Weblogs and Location, beyond the limits of physical and virtual space by Mikel Maron at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, wiki notes
• geoblogging

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Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/13.html#a1281; comments are here.

• BlogTalk: Maria Milonas speaks about blogs in Poland
• BlogTalks 2.0
• BlogTalk 2.0: Mark

Ideas and presentations about implementations of weblogs and wikis from conferences I visited (see other themes). These are the highlights grouped in themes (relevant for our research); I’ll try to link to full sources as much as possible.

Weblog imlementations in corporate settings

Distributed KM – Improving Knowledge Workers’ Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing by Martin Röll at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation with notes, draft version of paper, wiki notes, Martin’s post
• conceptual ideas on connections between personal knowledge management and organisational KM; weblog in the context

Informal, joined up knowledge sharing using connected weblogs in pursuit of Mental Health service improvement by Lee Bryant at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes, post by Lee with summary and links to people who wrote about it
• bonus: Stephanie Booth and Lee on the “Lee Bryant notetaking experiment”
• case study: 18-month knowledge community development project with the National Institute for Mental Health in England
• best of all: full of ideas, tricks and lessons learnt!

Using Weblogs as Project Management Tools in innovative projects by Michael Schuster at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes
• case study: multi-author project weblog with students for real-life project => used as discussion board, not very interactive, topics not used

Enhancing Blogs with a dual interaction design by Brigitte Roemmer-Nossek at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, wiki notes
• case study: virtual communication among a class of trainees and among their coaches during on-the-job training
• results
  • coaches didn’t expept the tool (not many, mainly to communicate with trainees, but not between each other), trainees did
  • weblogs worked better than discussion forum and chat in two previous cases

Learning from weblogs of others (re: weblog apprenticeship)

Legitimised theft: Distributed apprenticeship in weblog networks, our own work, presented at I-KNOW KM/learning track

• paper, presentation
• conceptual framework, “public weblogs” case and possible limitations of implementing in companies

Using weblogs for eliciting new experiences and creating learning elements for experienced-based information systems by Gabriela Avram, Eric Ras, Stephan Weibelzahl, presented at I-KNOW KM/learning track

• Gabriela, is anything online?
• a case of weblog implementation in a company
• study of how weblog posts could be useful as resources for (more) formal learning programs => yes, they are useful

Collective blogging from the view of a context-oriented understanding of knowledge by Markus Glötzel at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, wiki notes
• a case of weblog implementation
• study of how people contextualise observations through blogging and what others can learn from it => weblogs allowed totally exterior person to construct narrative based on what information had been stored in the weblogs

Beyond webpublishing: a journey into reading… lurking… learning… – my presentation at EdMedia symposium on weblogs and learning

• presentation; no paper, but I’ll be writing on it coming months
• conceptual framework for analysing learning effects of weblog reading: weblog networks as social ecosystems as slides + lurking/legitimate peripheral participation + implicit learning

Weblogs in educational settings

Seeding conversational learning environments: Running a course on personal webpublishing and weblogs by Sebastian Fiedler at BlogTalk 2.0

• wiki notes
• related presentations at EdMedia symposium on weblogs and learning and I-Know/Hybrid learning track, but nothing is online (Sebastian?)

Don’t remember the title, but it was interesting by Adrian Miles at EdMedia symposium on weblogs and learning

• is anything online? I could find only general notes on symposium

Blogging as a dynamic, transformative medium in the writing classroom of an American Liberals Arts College by Barbara Ganley at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes, notes by Barbara (before the conference, most detailed)

Blogging in higher education: 10 thoughts/lessons by Tom de Bruyne at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes

Weblogs in journalism

Blog to work: blogging and journalism by Jane Perrone at BlogTalk 2.0

• abstract, wiki notes
• on experiences writing weblogs for Guardian Unlimited: personal blogging vs. blogging for work; role of weblogs in news coverage

From weblogs to wikis

Bottom up Knowledge Management with Weblogs and SnipSnap by Stephan J. Schmidt & Matthias L. Jugel

• abstract, presentation, wiki notes
• conceptual stuff on bottom-up KM
• use of SnipSnap (integrated weblog/wiki solution) in Fraunhofer (not much about it in the presentation, but I guess they will tell you stories if you ask :)

Roughing up processes the Wiki Way – Knowledge communities in the context of work and learning processes by Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, David Fuhr, André Köhler at I-KNOW KM/learning track

• hope presentation will be online soon
• one more case of wiki implementation in Fraunhofer, this time in connection with formal learning program

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Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/13.html#a1280; comments are here.

• Discovering organic learning
• KM bloggers community
• Weblogging as a reflective conversational tool for self-organized learning

Ton on BlogTalk dreaming – Dreamfeed: You know it’s been intense….

……when you dream about blogging the BlogTalk conference………when you wake up realising you forgot what you were blogging in your dream………and then think, ah well, I’ll check the RSS feed of it later, and copy it from there. ;D

It’s been great the past three days! Thanks to everyone who made that possible.

:)))

Did not have any dreams about blogging: travel, lack of sleep and information overload make me falling into dreamless sleep at every opportunity.

I am still on the road, now on a short detour in Italy, blending sightseeing, good food and noone to talk about weblogs into a recovery program. I will be back home on Sunday, so hope to write on two conferences before BlogTalk, to edit my BlogTalk notes and to post reflections on what all these new ideas mean for me and my research.

But the best part of this travel was meeting people. Thanks for all for sharing f2f time, food, drinks, walks and creative conversations (and special thanks to Sebastian and Rick for their company during various part of this trip).

Now leaving coolness of Internet cafe for treasures of Bologna…

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/08.html#a1272; comments are here.

• BlogTalk: people blogging it live
• BlogTalk: Martin Röll on weblogs in business

Mena and Ben Trott: Blogs, Bandwidth, and Banjos: Tightly Knit Bonds in Weblogging

• “Weblogging revolution”: when weblogs become invisible, embedded in what you do
• TypePad
  • 33% of TypePad weblogs are private (not indexed, not pinging, etc.)
  • 10% are password-protected
  • -> only exist for those who are intended to see them
• Why do you out them online then?
• Behaviour influences tools

The bottom line: I’m not impressed. Mena and Ben wasn’t here yesterday, were 15 minute late for their keynote presentation and didn’t really tell anything new (apart from the banjo story that was entertaining, but more appropriate in another context). May be there are some serious reasons behind it, but it looks like the attitude.

For me it’s quite connected with yesterday’s discussion about developers not listening to their users :)

Update: Mena has posted on the talk, so you can judge for yourself. It’s a pity that Mena and Ben didn’t have time to communicate – their experience could add to the conversation… Anyway, online is always there…

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Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/06.html#a1265; comments are here.

• Trip report (2): presence
• BlogTalk proposal submitted
• BlogTalk 2.0: Torill Mortensen

Azeem Azhar / Stefan Glänzer / Max Niederhofer: Does blogging suck?

not many notes as I was reloading

• an interesting study of correlation of blogger characteristics with growth of 26 communities in different countries
• quantitive data (want to see the slides)
• qualitative
  • three types of epitaths (“leaving notes”) and correlation with returning
  • mobile blogging: heavy start and then drop-of; if heavy usage is for weeks, then it stays

Nico Lumma “The German Blogosphere – some facts and figures”

• Interesting stats and implications re: German blogs, find presentation

Michael Schuster “Applying Social Network Analysis to a small Weblog Community: Hubs, Power Laws, the Ego Effect and the Evolution of Social Networks”

• community “connections”
  • comments – 40%
  • blogroll – 40%
  • stories – 20%
• incoming links
  • 20% blogs have no links
  • 60% blogs have less then 3 links
• linking is necessary for the discovery?
• community pressure from A-list blogs is something that turns people away: linking practices of A-list bloggers define the interconnectedness of a community

Questions/comments

• Numbers of password-protected blogs

• 10-30% of hosted blogs

• many new weblogs, but most drop-out fast
• practices?

• types of bloggers?
• closed communities
• clusters of German blogs are platform based (not in other countries?)
• try to be part of local community and to strengthen it: why professional blogs?
• ask questions better – communities vs. social pressure

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Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/05.html#a1264; comments are here.

• Writing: three words
• Blogging echo chambers
• Jan Schmidt on blogging practices

Juan J. Merelo / Beatriz Prieto / Fernando Tricas: Blogosphere community formation, structure and visualization

• Maps as projections, multiple projections are possible
• Evolution of communities
  • where and how weblogs travel over time
  • future trajectories

You need to see the presentation for it…

Talked to JJ yesterday, they have some tools available for a use… have so many ideas for joint work…

Markus Oswald / Brigitte Roemmer-Nossek / Erich Gstrein / Markus F. Peschl: Enhancing Blogs with a Dual Interaction Design

• Implementation case: virtual communication among a class of trainees and among their coaches during on-the-job training
  • Two panels in editing modes: topic-based visual navigation + editing window
  • Results
    • Coaches didn’t expept the tool (not many, mainly to communicate with trainees, but not between each other), trainees did
    • Weblogs worked better than discussion forum and chat in two previous cases
• The tool also used in other cases

I wonder if success is due to the “dual” design or something else?

• I asked later: seems that it’s not much of the interface

Mikel Maron: Weblogs and Location, beyond the limits of physical and virtual space

• Nice ideas and applications for geocoding in blogs
• Location.root for Radio and plug-ins for other tools

Questions/comments

• Hospitality that makes gurus?
• Links vs. content: how they are correlated?

• JJ: mapping communities based on links vs. based on content would give similar results.
• Don’t think so (re: links are not only about content, but also sign of relations, which are more than content connections)

• Brigitte: consulting for organisations

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Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/05.html#a1263; comments are here.

• Mapping weblog communities
• On the bursty evolution of blogspace
• The Robots and media contagion

Torill Elvira Mortensen: Dialogue in slow motion – the pleasure of writing and reading across the web (see notes and links)

All bloggers assume the other

We are hardwired to accept the existence of others and to communicate with them

• Communicating as a need
• Connection with Emergence: sells communicating with each other

What makes us different from sleem molds is the sophistication of our needs and tools we use

Blogs are between oral and written communication: oral immediacy and informality, written persistence and formality

• We expect turn-taking as a given right and not one of the possibilities

We need to start learning to live with different modalities

Tezt as a play between authors and readers: in between blog posts, in the space created by links

• Space between texts could be compared to sidewalks (re: Emergence again + city metaphor ;)
• Blogger strolls slowly through the city: you don’t understand neighbourhood by driving through it

You can choose the level and the mode of this game (commenct and trackbacks are for hard-core blog players :)

Loved this talk: as a beautiful interplay of ideas, conversations, examples and themes in the blogosphere

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Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/07/05.html#a1262; comments are here.

• My definitions of a weblog
• Me, speaking on researching blogs and blogging research, Amsterdam, 21 June
• Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, community and culture of weblogs