Fra Mena's Corner:
Mena's Corner: Six Apart Redesign Coming: "Six Apart Redesign Coming
01.30.2005

Later this week, we'll be unveiling a new redesign of the various Six Apart websites (Movable Type, TypePad and Six Apart corporate site). Hopefully, the changes that have been made will convey our desire to present all of Six Apart's websites in a cohesive and standard way. We've worked with the folks at Mule Design to make this redesign possible and, I think, you'll be happy with the results."

Ja, det er ganske svært at formidle, hvad Blogs er:
Response to "Mommy (and Me)" | CultureCat: "Response to 'Mommy (and Me)'

Via Prof. B., I see that the New York Times story on parents' weblogs has been published. I'm dismayed but not all that surprised with what's in there, and I'll tell you why."

It's Bloggie Nomination time again..... The Bloggies™ 2005
Den femte brugerafstemning om The Bloggies™ Weblog Award
Se også Bloggie, bloggie, bloggie, bloggie etc.
Tom Coates (Plasticbag.org) beretter om glæden ved (igen) at være nomineret og anbefaler en antal blogs fra forskellige kategorier.
tony pierce, busblog: How to blog skal have min stemme for Best Article or Essay About Weblogs!

World Economic Forum i Davos har blogs på programmet
World Economic Forum - Welcome to the Blogopolis
By providing highly personalized, real-time political information, blogging is reshaping how citizens make political decisions, for good and ill. 1) When do bloggers provide better information and analysis than conventional media? 2) Are bloggers effective media watchdogs? 3) Can bloggers be a positive political tool, and not just a threat to the powers that be? 4) What is the relationship between bloggers and democratic values?

10 Places of My City - Chinese Blogging social movement | Kevin Wen's Web
Et blogprojekt som ved hjælp af Technorati's tag system opbygger et socialt system, hvor bloggeres fortællinger om 10 geografiske steder, de selv vælger, knyttes sammen.
Fantastisk inspiration til sociale blog-projekter. Jeg får øjeblikkeligt ideer til adskillige, som kunne være interessante i undervisningssamenhæng.......

PressThink: Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over: "Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over"

Man skal endelig ikke forivre sig i 'The Blogosphere' ;)
Apology to Kairosnews. | Kairosnews

Indisk blog: Youth Curry - Insight on Indian Youth

Videointerview med Salam Pax
Baghdad Bloggen af Salam Pax

Fortune (January 2005) features 10 tech trends to watch in 2005. Trend No.1: Why you can't ignore bloggers: Why There's No Escaping the Blog (via Smart Mobs).
Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs Wired News.
Ifølge PubSub er der nu 8 mill. blogs

Danmarks Journalishøjskole om Weblogs:
DJH multimedier: Fokus på netjournalistik

Google, msn og Yahoo bekæmper comment spam:
Working Together Against Blog Spam
Yahoo! Search Blog
Mere om commentspam:
SpywareInfo
Wikipedia

Klastrup's Cataclysms forudser at valget vil få blogging til at blomstre i DK.

Et gæt på Yahoo's modtræk til Googles opkøb af Blogger:
The Internet Stock Blog: Yahoo to acquire Six Apart?: "Yahoo to acquire Six Apart?

Six Apart, the owner of hosted blogging service TypePad and publisher of blogging software Movable Type, just acquired LiveJournal. Within six months Six Apart itself will be acquired by Yahoo!."

The blogospere vil nok hoppe i stolen over artiklens begrundelse for gættet:
"Because the blogging platforms are the largest generators of new Web content, they are a natural target for the providers of PPC ads. Many bloggers dislike the notion of advertising on blogs, but they're in for a shock. Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal and the other blogging platforms will make it much easier for Web publishers to profit from ads. They'll build contextual ads into Web site templates, and use the publishers' sign-up information to open simultaneous advertising accounts."

9:12 am virker LiveJournal stadig ikke....... Status Rapport
Se også SixApart

Næppe har SixApart købt LiveJournal før første ulykke indtræffer 7:35 pm PST:


Temporarily Unavailable
LiveJournal is currently down due to a massive power failure at our data center. We'll provide updates at /powerloss/ as they're available.

Our data center (Internap, the same one we've been at for many years) lost all its power, including redundant backup power, for some unknown reason. (unknown to us, at least) We're currently dealing with verifying the correct operation of our 100+ servers. Not fun. We're not happy about this. Sorry... :-/ More details later.

Archinect : School Blog Project

Social software in education
Resources
Flere 'klassiske tekster', men også en del konkrete eksempler. F.eks. et link til Wiki In Education, et indholdsrigt site.

Blogrelaterede emner fylder godt på årets Top Technology Trends: Free Range Librarian: Top Technology Trends Solicited
Se også LITA (The Library and Information Technology Association) om Top Technology Trends.

Deconstructing Technorati
A good week for Technorati: Corante > Strange Attractor >

BlogBib
En fin, lille annoteret bibliografi om Weblogs og Blogging med fokus på Biblioteks- og bibliotekarblogs.

Commentspam
Så nåede Spam bloggospheren.

Nogen tager det meget alvorligt CommentSpam, CommentSPAM.org
På Services siden ligger to - hm, døde - links til lister og spammeres IP adresser.
Nogen er meget, meget sure, Attention Comment Spammers
Commentspam findes i forskellige genrer ifølge Concerning SpamComment Spam Manifesto
Mange skriver meget: En Google liste om Commentspam
Baggrunden er Googles Ranking system, så Google får også et par rituelle hak: Wired, 12.03.04

Bortset fra irritationen og belastede servere er bekymringen også betydningen for kommunikation:
"Howard Rheingold, a futurist who predicts always-on communication will revolutionize public discourse, is worried that all these new forms of spam could freeze the revolution in its tracks. There will be no great social transformation if cell phones are turned off, instant messenger programs shut down or blog comments disabled to halt the flow of offers for online porn or cheap drugs.
“It forces you to either turn off the comments and lose some of the value of the medium, or spend your time deleting spam,” said Rheingold, who runs his own blog." (Spammers now clogging blogs, IM, Personal Web journals grow cell phones, instant messages)

Og så er der da også afballancerede meninger: Comment spam arms race

Det nyeste nummer af LORE (An E_Journal for Teachers of Writing) har en lang række spændende artikler om Blogs som studieredskab.

E:M | No blogging, no social networking: "No blogging, no social networking

Friends in Iran, journalists and technicians, are saying that judiciary officials have ordered all major ISP to filter all blogging services including PersianBlog, BlogSpot, Blogger, BlogSky, and even BlogRolling.

They have also ordered to filter Orkut, Yahoo Personals and some other popular dating and social networking websites."

Da jeg har boet i Indien i 3 år, kan jeg selvfølgelig slet ikke stå for The IndiBlog Awards
en konkurrence om bedste indiske blogs :)

Serendipity - min yndlingsbegreb :)
- kontrolfreaks på arbejde.... igen!

Whatever happened to serendipity?

Kommentar til Jonathan Abrams' beskrivelse af Friendster som services som "proactively influence serendipity."
Serendipity and Self-Selection with Social Software - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com: "Serendipity and Self-Selection with Social Software"

Mens jeg er tilbøjelig til at give Judith Meskill (thesocialwareblog) ret i hendes skepsis overfor det proaktive, synes jeg nu ikke begrebet serendipity står helt klart i Judith Meskills kommentar. Ligesom serendipity næppe kan 'proaktiveres frem', kan det vel heller ikke siges at Google/ensøgemaskine er 'serendipity værktøj', men blot et værktøj, hvor - under brug af hvilket - serendipity kan forekomme.

Technorati + blog = ?
WebMink: "Threads of Conversation
Tim has added tracking 'bubblets' to his blog, and Boing Boing may have started a trend by adding Technorati searches for each article. - Dave has added them to his blog and to PlanetSun for example."

Linkssamling om blogs og biblioteker:
Hovedoppgaven

Interessant projekt
Conversations with Dina foreslår en sammenligning af Technorati og Feedster og PubSub

Rygtet bekræftes
Six Apart køber LiveJournal. Brad Fitzpatrick gør i sandhed, hvad han kan for at imødegå de bekymringer, der har huseret blandt LJ'erne de sidste dage. Mens bekymringerne rettede sig mod kulturen, er forsvaret rettet mod trust. En eksemplarisk case om to af nettets store buzzword.
NB. den enorme diskussion, Brad Fitzpatrick' annnouncement affødte på sitet!

Mena (Six Apart) har også i Mena's Corner et langt indlæg om handlen. Hun omtaler eksplicit hierarkiet og fordommene bloggerne imellem, men hun har jo også erfaring med, hvilke konflikter, der hurtigt kan hvirvles op i det miljø...... (Mena's Shocking Baby Scandal! I, II)

Også Mena ved præcis, hvad Branding and Affiliation is all about in the times of Risk Society: Earning Your Trust
"Change is scary and we can certainly expect LiveJournalers to worry about what this acquisition means for them. While we certainly can't just say "trust us" and gain all 5.6 million users' trust from day one..."

[day in the life] gør sig nogle interessante overvejelser over det billede medierne (læs journalister) giver af bloggere, og slutter med:
"I'd love to do a content analysis of major mass media outlet coverage of blogs and bloggers over the past couple of years - what is the non-blogging public hearing about blogs?"
Hvem kommer først? :)

Fairvue Central >> Bloggies >> Fifth Annual Weblog Awards

Bloggerne fusionere. The 'Tribes' protesterer.
Rygterne fortæller at Six Apart er i færd med at købe Live Journal:
Om Malik on Broadband - Six Apart to buy Live Journal
apophenia er ikke begejstret og begrundelsen er ret interessant:

"Live Journal is a culture, not simply a product or commodity that can be bought. From an outsider's perspective, it might appear as though they are similar properties - they are both blogging tools, right? Wrong. [......] Movable Type is a product; LiveJournal is a community. Six Apart is seen as a community that provides tools, not culture. [.....]While many bloggers love to talk about LJ with disdain, as a low-brow version of the culture, i adore LJ from the bottom of my heart and i'm truly concerned that LJ's culture will be corrupted by an acquisition. It is not like any other blogging service and the needs that it serves are fundamentally different."

Om LJ, se.....

BBC NEWS | Technology | Blog reading explodes in America

Americans are becoming avid blog readers, with 32 million getting hooked in 2004, according to new research.

The survey, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, showed that blog readership has shot up by 58% in the last year.

Endnu en interessant rapport fra Pew Internet/American Life Project!

Computerworld Online - Danske internet-junkier kan afvænnes

Tja.... har man mistet formuen på dot.com krisen, kan man måske hente dem hjem igen på terapi.com karusellen ;)

Pew Internet & American Life Project: Blogosphere

Many-to-Many: A Really Simple Chat, v3.0b: Back Channels 'R' It

Måske skulle jeg se at få skiftet min sørgelige chat ud........

Blogs: powerful people, or people power?

Social bookmarking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
se også artiklen om metadata: Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata samt
Delicious (social bookmarks manager)
Flickr (photo management and sharing web application)

Og debatten om Metadata, der udvikler sig i Blogospheren:
Flickr and "folksonomies"
Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging?

Mere om Wikipedia på Many 2 Many, January 04, 2005:
Reagle on the Wikipedia (posted by Clay Shirky) og Academia and Wikipedia (posted by danah boyd) og January 05, 2005 samme sted.