Boing Boing: MSN Spaces: seven dirty blogs: "Earlier today, I posted comments from a BoingBoing reader about the fact that MSN Spaces, Microsoft's new blogging tool, censors certain words you might try to include in a blog title or url. If you can't speak freely on a blog, what's the point of having one? This demanded a full investigation.

Using my existing MSN Passport account, I attempted to create a number of blogs, one after the other. The results of which titles passed and which were banned may surprise you -- or at least generate a few Beavis-and-Butthead snorkles. Each of the linked test-titles in this BoingBoing post points to to an actual, unmodified screenshot of the corresponding test blog I created (or was denied the ability to create) using MSN Search."

CNN.com - Publisher: 'Blog' No. 1 word of the year - Nov 30, 2004: "Blog will be a new entry in the 2005 version of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The complete list of words of the year is available at http:/www.merriam-webster.com/info/04words.htm"

HUM 202 -- Toward a Literacy of Cooperation: "Toward a Literacy of Cooperation
HUM 202"
Cybersociology author Howard Rheingold and Andrea Saveri, a director at the Institute for the Future, have teamed up to host a course at Stanford University that will undoubtedly be incredibly engaging. The course, Toward A Literacy of Cooperation, is open to public enrollment and kicks off January 5. Howard and Andrea have lined up a dynamite list of guest speakers including Paul Hartzog, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and Ross Mayfield of SocialText.

We are currently having the reader built by the Stanford Bookstore. Look for a list of readings on the site later this week.

Article: The 'blog' revolution sweeps across China�| New Scientist

(19:00 24 November 04, Special Report from New Scientist Print Edition.)

It took a chance online encounter between a software engineer from Shanghai and a teacher in a remote province of China to start shaking up the power balance between the people and the government of the world’s most populous nation.

In August 2002, Isaac Mao, who worked at the Shanghai office of the chip maker Intel, was one of only a handful of people in China who had heard the word “blog”. A regular web surfer, he was fascinated by the freedom these online journals gave to ordinary people to publish both their own and their readers’ views online.

Surfing the US website blogger.com, Mao was thrilled to find Zheng Yunsheng, a teacher at a technical school in Fujian province. He left a message on Zheng’s blog, and two weeks later Mao and Zheng started CNBlog.org, China’s first online discussion forum about blogging technology and culture.

They soon gathered a small but devoted group of participants, many of whom went on to develop the technology that makes blogging possible for China’s half-a-million bloggers.

PortalsMag.com: Big-Time Blogging
Blogs and content aggregators are lead players in a new generation of tools that promise greater ability to create, distribute, and access Web content. The two also happen to have a symbiotic relationship: Blogs make content creation more accessible, and aggregators give greater control to readers of the ongoing proliferation of Web-based content. These tools are gaining attention in the media and the marketplace and hold great promise to transform the way the Web works. They are also starting to make inroads within corporations as collaborative and content management tools that can be used in conjunction with existing systems or as replacements.

Danske weblog hosts/gratis steder
Blogger.dk
Smartlog.dk
LiveJournal

Andet:
Kort (dansk) introduktion til blogger.com
En fantastisk islandsk linksamlig (inkl. weblog tools)

Danske blogs om strikning:
Birthes FiberBlog
Sjatstrikkeren

Microsofts projekt Wallop:
Social Computing Group Home: "Overview
Our mission in the Social Computing Group is to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping.
Our work includes the Sapphire project, sharing, mobile applications, trust and reputation, collaboration, and story telling. To facilitate the rapid prototyping, we also have an online lab for running studies to evaluate our social user interfaces. "

Blogs (or Jurnal Writing
WritingBlogs is intended to be a creative community for students in college-level writing classes and writing instructors - materiale til de studerende om Blogs/logbøger.

Wired News: Bloggers Suffer Burnout: "In the days following the U.S. invasion of Iraq last year, a new blog called Whiskey Bar quickly became a popular online destination for opponents of the war. The site's author, who ran the site as a virtual bar with himself as the bartender, encouraged visitors to share their views on the topic at hand. "

BBC NEWS | Technology | Games 'deserve a place in class': "Computer games could enhance learning and have a legitimate place in the classroom, say researchers."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Blogger grounded by her airline: "A US airline attendant is fighting for her job after she was suspended over postings on her blog, or online diary. "

Blogger Forum

Tag på kursus i design af Blogs - San Fracisco 8.11.04
adaptive path ' san francisco ' redesigning blogger: "Join us in San Francisco for this brand new one-day workshop where we'll teach you how to keep your design focused through growth and redesign, how to approach a major redesign project, and much more!"

joppLOGG 2.0: 'Collaborations in Electronic Writing': "'Collaborations in Electronic Writing'
I've just come back to the office after a truly inspiring talk given by Scott Rettberg. He presented some of his innovative e-literature projects, among them the hypertext narrative The Unkown and the serial email novel Kind of Blue. Experimentation, collaboration and the joy and enthusiasm of writing are prominent traits of his works. "
Indlæg i GameBlog, Carsten

Berlingske Tidende: "Blogs og kritisk journalistik


Af Af Jesper Lau Hansen Professor, dr.jur., Det juridiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
En blogger er en person, der fører en web log - en side på internettet med kommentarer, som alle kan se. Blogs kan handle om alt, og mange har karakter af nyhedsdækning ofte med en klar politisk vinkel. I nogle tilfælde er deres dækning mere kildekritisk og alsidig end de traditionelle mediers."
Fra Berlingske Tidende lørdag den 25. september 2004

En kvalitativ undersøgelse af webloggens betydning i hverdagslivet Speciale om blogs. Medievidenskab, Københavns Universitet.

Kære Niels
Jeg mente ikke, at folk skulle sende emails - til dig/alle altså....

Det, jeg efterlyste, var en funktion i det vidensdelingssytem Kodefabrikken har lavet, der gør det muligt at sende emails fra eget postsystem til vidensdelingssystemet.
Dette indlæg har jeg f.eks. skrevet i et postprogram (Inotes). Derefter har jeg sendt det til min blog (den side, du nu sidder og ser på).

Fordelen er, at 'brugeren' anvender kendt teknologi (email), i stedet for at skulle have logins osv. til et nyt system. Forskellen fra mailen er, at indlæg er 'sorteret' idet den ligger på hjemmesiden i stedet for at rode rundt i deltagernes postsystemer.

Smart ikke?

Kærlig hilsen Lis

Into the Blogosphere: "This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others. We encourage you to post your responses to the essays"

Blogger Knowledge
Just ask Lynne Truss, the author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. A self-described stickler for punctuation, she despairs at the misplaced apostrophe, the erroneous colon, the dangling comma — all of which are far too commonplace on the internet, where the motto seems to be: Faster, Blogger! Kill! Kill! Kill!