søndag, december 26, 2004

Smart Mobs: Folksonomy - more collective classification: "Folksonomy - more collective classification
How to Recognize The Future When It Lands On You, Technologies of Cooperation
Posted by Gerrit Visser at 09:08 AM

According to the free encyclopedia Wikipedia Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using simple tags in a flat namespace.

This feature has begun appearing in a variety of social software. At present, the best examples of online folksonomies are social bookmarking probably del.icio.us, a bookmark sharing site, and Flickr, for photo sharing. Gmail's labeling system is somewhat similar to the use of tags, but it is not a folksonomy because users cannot share their categorizations. Folksonomy is related to the concept of faceted classification from library science.

Denham Grey writes on KM Knowdlege Tools that there is a growing interest in social classification and its relation to ontology development."

onsdag, december 22, 2004

Det er årstiden for statstikker og årets top-X lister. Her er kottle.org's 12 favoritblogs:
My favorite weblogs of 2004 (kottke.org)
Om nr. 1 på listen skriver Jason Kottle:
Flickr is the most fun on the web right now. Period. It's the closest thing I've experienced online to hanging out with your friends at the coffeeshop.

En anden 'Blog of the Year' liste.

Google 2004 Zeitgeist: Search patterns, trends, and surprises


eLearn Magazine: E-Learning Basics: "E-Learning Basics

One Path to the Blog
An Odyssey in Tracking and Sharing Technology with the Online Higher Education Community
By Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus/Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Illinois at Springfield"

NB. Se links i slutningen af essayet
*The* Link Portal on Gender in the Blogosphere | CultureCat

tirsdag, december 21, 2004

Privacy in the age of blogging
- tanker om blogging med undergraduates.
Crooked Timber: "As I prepare for my upcoming undergraduate class in which students will be required to maintain blogs, I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about how to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). According to FERPA, I have to make sure that certain details about student enrollment in my classes are kept private. In the process, I have realized that this is a one-way street. There is nothing preventing my students from blogging whatever information they decide about me. Of course, social sanctions may still exist. Students may decide it is not worth upsetting their instructor through such practices. Nonetheless, there will be plenty of opportunities for blogging things after class is over. Moreover, they may have individual blogs not associated with the class that are written anonymously and can serve as an outlet for commentary about others."
Frindster kommer til Danmark: Mingler
Mingler - et online socialt netværk. Mød dine venners venner: "Et online socialt netværk, hvor du kan pleje og nyde dine personlige relationer.
Find venners venner. Skaf info. Connect med kolleger.
Søg job. Flirt. Få en oplevelse.

Å b n e r f o r å r e t 2 0 0 5 "

mandag, december 20, 2004

Nu også blogs på Amazon.com!
Amazon.com: website info: culturecat.net/: "People who visit this page also visit:

* Crooked Timber www.crookedtimber.org - Site info
* Burningbird weblog.burningbird.net - Site info
* The Chutry Experiment chutry.wordherders.net - Site info
* Invisible Adjunct www.invisibleadjunct.com - Site info
* Mortensen, Torill torillsin.blogspot.com - Site info
* Elearnspace Blog www.elearnspace.org/blog - Site info"

søndag, december 19, 2004

Det måtte jo komme. Først var der et rape i cyberspace, nu sex scandals of the blogosphere:
The New York Times > Magazine > Phenomenon: Your Blog or Mine?: "Your Blog or Mine?
By JEFFREY ROSEN

Published: December 19, 2004

One of the first sex scandals of the blogosphere ended, of course, in a book deal. In May, Ana Marie Cox, the Internet gossip whose Web log, Wonkette, focuses on Washington, published a link to another blogger who called herself the Washingtonienne. In the blog, Washingtonienne, a Capitol Hill employee, used a Senate computer to post intimate details about her experience sleeping with six different men, some of whom were paying for her favors. "

The NITLE News Volume 2, Number 1, winter 2003: "Weblogs in Education: Bringing the World to the Liberal Arts Classroom

- Sarah Lohnes

A new, easy-to-use web publishing tool known as a weblog allows users to publish content to the web from their browsers, providing users with an unprecedented ability to participate in the internet community. In the true liberal arts tradition, teachers and students are using these tools to effectively break down the walls of the classroom, integrating teaching and learning with local and virtual communities."
Crooked Timber: Blogs by students
I am teaching an undergraduate class this Winter called “Internet and Society”. [1] I am going to require each student to maintain his/her own blog. This poses some challenges from keeping up with the amount of written material to assuring a certain level of privacy for students (as per related federal laws). I still have a few weeks to think about the specifics and thought would see what experiences and wisdom others may have accumulated in this realm.
Rhetoric and Democracy: "Rhetoric and Democracy

Welcome to the discussion and announcement site for Dr. Chuck Tryon's English 1101 courses at Georgia Tech. Class discussion will focus on the langauge and images used in political campaigns, focusing primarily on the 2004 presidential election. Visitors are welcome to leave comments and participate in the discussion."
jill/txt: talk at brown: "talk at brown

My talk at Brown today is titled 'Weblogs: Learning to Write in the Network' and is going to be mostly about using blogs with students. I'm going to stress network literacy and how blogging is not simply keeping an electronic journal, it's distributed and collaborative; it's learning to think and write with the network. I'll also talk a bit about the ethics of insisting students blog in public."
UsageWatch.org: How do " ordinary bloggers " blog ? And Why ?

Ethnographic investigations of « ordinary blogs and bloggers» by B. Nardi, D.J. Schiano, M. Gumbrecht and L. Swartz provide insight into the practices, experiences and motivations of individuals and groups who publish a blog for a small audience.


Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights: "Hard choices: researcher vs. blogger?"

lørdag, december 18, 2004

Danah Boyd: Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice
The goal of this paper is to reveal tensions underlying conceptualizations
First, I introduce how metaphorical constructions of blogging are being
limiting research on blogging by obfuscating an understanding of
Ong’s ‘secondary orality’ to discuss how blogging complicates
orality and textuality. Additionally, I discuss other dichotomous moves
blogging such as spatiality and corporeality, artifact and practice,
depictions of their practices to shed light on the tensions in each.

onsdag, december 15, 2004

Flix.dk - Weblogs skaber ny avisjournalistik
Kirsten Hofset skriver på Flix.dk (en webavis der skrives af læserne og læses af skribenterne. Danmarks første open source-avis)
"Dagbladene har taget bloggerbegrebet til sig. Det der startede som et undergrundspip på nettet, erkendes nu af flere dagblade som et magtfuldt medie. Og nu forsøger de at kopiere det."

mandag, december 13, 2004

e-klumme: Etiske regler for weblogs!?: "I den senere tid er der opstået en diskussion om, hvorvidt, der skal opstilles nogle etiske regler for biblioteks weblogs. "
UtterlyBoring.com: MovableType/Blogging Link Dump