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Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious
Posted 11/03/2004 under news articles •
Connected people, links, networks - back to the 6 degrees of seperation??? Maybe not.
“There is a lot of speculation that really important people are highly connected, but really, we wonder if the highly connected people just listen to the important people,” said Lada Adamic, one of the four researchers working on the project.
BlogPulse [BETA]: Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs
Posted 11/03/2004 under webloggia •
According to BlogPulse:
“BlogPulse Key Phrases, Key People, BlogBites, and Top Links are mined daily from new entries in over 80,000 weblogs using machine learning algorithms and natural language processing techniques. BlogPulse mines for bursty phrases and person names instead of for the most popular ones. The most popular phrases and names change very slowly over time. The burstiest phrases and names are those whose frequency of occurrence has increased significantly over the past two weeks, often dramatically.”
Why I Hate Personal Weblogs
Posted 10/03/2004 under research •
That’s not me that hates personal Weblogs, but is the title of this essay by somebody who professes to hate them. This person makes some good points and the article is worth reading, and in parts is very witty, however if bad language offends you, don’t click on the link below. (Of course, by saying that every person who reads this weblog entry will automatically click on the link to discover what foul words have been written there!!).
Everybody is entitled to there opinion and the beauty of the Web is that every person can publish an opinion, as a Weblog perhaps, and who cares whether others agree with it or not.
Anyway, here’s a sample;
BlogTalk 2.0 :
Posted 08/12/2003 under education •
Following on from the success of the BlogTalk 1.0 conference which was held in Vienna last May, plans are well under way for BlogTalk 2.0, also to be held in Vienna on the 5-6th of July 2004.
There is a call for papers and the organisers describe the conference thusly…
BlogTalk 2.0 is designed to initiate a dialog between bloggers, developers, researchers and others who share, enjoy and analyse the benefits of blogging. The focus is on weblogs as an expression of a culture based on the exchange of information, ideas and knowledge. In the spirit of the free exchange of opinions, links and thoughts we wish to engage a wide range of participants from the blogosphere in this discourse.
BlogTalk 2.0 will be two days of meetings, discussions, and exchange of research, with attendees sharing experiences, opinions, software developments, and tools of the blogosphere.
Comment spam
Posted 10/11/2003 under miscellaneous •
Comment spam from a home improvement business in Massachussetts who are selling an item to help seal attic stairways and fireplaces. Fat lot of good that will do for me in sunny Queensland, Australia.
Please don’t do any business with Batticdoor if you are in their area
Chronicle Lite, The Blogger.com client for all platforms
Posted 05/11/2003 under blogging tools •
Chronicle Lite provides a friendly client application for people who use Blogger.com for all of their journalling needs. It also looks to satisfy the needs of the “power users” who want to interact with files on their local computer, and publish them to their online journal. Helpful shortcut keys speed up editing of HTML content, and drag-and-drop support allows tags to be created simply by dropping a file onto the Chronicle Lite window.
tabulas.com: centralized journaling fun
Posted 05/11/2003 under blogging tools •
Tabulas is a centralized journaling website. You can create a website with a journal and photogallery with no computer knowledge required!
At todays date they have;
? 7121 registered users
? 44632 entries posted
? 62619 comments posted
? 41686 images posted in 4001 albums
? 363 shared journals created
? 1438 content pages created
Guardian Unlimited | British Blog awards 2003
Posted 18/10/2003 under news articles •
Guardian Unlimited is launching a competition to promote and reward the best of British blogging. The panel of 22 judges will pick winners for five different categories: best design, best specialist, best use of photography, best under 18 and best written. You can enter your blog in as many categories as you like. The deadline for entries is November 21. The winners will be announced on December 18. The winner of each category will receive a cheque for ?500.
Blogoscope - a description
Posted 08/10/2003 under research •
Blogoscope - an instrument used to conduct a Blogoscopy.
Analogous to a microscope;
1. the light source, or the ontological underpinnings of a blogoscopy, illuminates the subject matter under investigation.
2. the objective lens, the primary lens that magnifies the subject matter so that it may be seen.
3. the ocular lens or eyepiece, re-magnifies the image formed by the objective lens and signifies the methodological approach to the study.
4. application of the focusing wheel, signifies the practical application of the methodologies employed in the blogoscopy.
Samizdata.net - Glossary
Posted 24/09/2003 under webloggia •
How cool is this? A glossary of blogging terms. I have submitted my terms ‘blogoscopy’ and ‘blogoscope’ for their approval. There are some cleverly constructed words here.
There are, I’m sure, as many reasons to keep weblogs as there are weblogs authors, however, some common threads surely exist between them. What could motivate someone to keep a public journal of their innermost thoughts? What possible reasons would someone have? Are some legitimately insightful or original, of course! Are most? No, probably not. So why? Well, I think most can be classified into one (or many) of several basic categories.
The Reverse Voyeur. This person suffers from a serious personal attention debt. I think this probably accounts for the majority of weblog authors. Not so much an exhibitionist, they aren’t making a spectacle of themselves in order to attract attention, no these people simply wish to be spied on intimately. They crave attention from someone else in their lives, they wish that someone would see them for who they really are and want to spend real time with them…