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More research questions about blogs.

Olaf Brugman comments to the emergent KM research proposal emergent KM research proposal asking about research of weblogs (bold is mine): 

I hope the research could contribute to:

• increasing knowledge transparency: I am enthusiast about the blogging phenomenon, with the way it can quickly form communities. However, I also find blogging leads to multiplying search and analysis time. There is so much blogging knowledge (on search, on networking, on technicalties), but a lot of this knowledge is multiplied around many blogs like a spreading virus. I have to go out and look for stuff, and then find many doubles. I think the collective blogging phenomenon isn't understanding the role of collective infrastructures as a katalyst or a complexity filter. BLogknowledge needs to be prefilterd, filtered for doubles, and syndicated to avoid individuals all having to go out to do the same thing.
• digital divide: blogging favours people who have 1) general web access, 2) to whom access cost are no issue 3) have the time to be online and working on the web constantly. It cuts off others.
• balance between webpageconversation and real conversation. It just isn't good to turn people in to brains glued to a keyboard. Needs to be balanced with meeting real people.
• as blogs grow: how to find back and reuse stuff? it is not a replacement for databases and fileshares. but then how is it to be positioned?

[Mathemagenic]

all interesting questions, lets circulate them…

Articles on wikis. “Operation of a Large Scale, General Purpose Wiki Website” [Seb's Open Research]

One of the first serious articles on wikis that isn't on a wiki (a previous one was The Reengineering Wiki (pdf)). , by susning.nu founder Lars Aronsson. Abstract:

A Wiki website is a hypertext on steroids. Any user can create or edit any page on the site using a simple web browser, and all information processing is done on the server side. Wiki sites are powerful tools for collaboration in closed work groups, but can also be used for the general public on the open Internet. This paper summarizes the experience from the first nine months of operation of Sweden's biggest Wiki website susning.nu, including its usefulness in non-profit and commercial applications, in hobby and professional, projects, its social and legal aspects, its relation to geographic information systems, subject information gateways, the establishment of a controlled vocabulary, and its implications on learning, free speech, the price of information, licensing, and copyright. Relevant comparisons to similar projects in other countries are also presented.

(via Peter Suber)

[Mathemagenic]

This could be handy.

99 Trial Balloons – Bush's Fast-Vanishing Proposals. Plastic::Politics::Disaster: Seems like a lot of Bush's Great Ideas are vanishing into thin air. Is the administration really trying, or just sorta spitballin' here? [Plastic: Most Recent]

we knew they wouldn't do anything worthwhile. or at least, i figured they wouldn't. not that their proposals were worth anythingl

Serving readers since 1999.

I've been nominated for a Jeffie as “Best Old Time Blogger.”

I nominate Bernie DeKoven as Best Fun Blogger. Currently on Deep Fun: Bonsai Potato. See?

Not speaking of which, The Bernie Award is now the Major Fun Award. Which is appropriate, cuz Bernie not only has fun, but also shares a lot of it, which is more than most of us do.

Anyway it's the Award Season. When we get back outside we'll think of something else to do.

Speaking of which, I'm in a garage where I should be sleeping (no kidding), typing this in the dark. I don't know if the animal sounds I'm hearing are the cats or something the cats should be eating.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

congrat's doc. I think it was '99 or so that Doc guest lectured in a class i taught online.

“IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN this Supervillain / Linux parody of those Apple 'switch' ads, well, watch it. It's funny.” [The Shifted Librarian via  Jack Burton, via InstaPundit]

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this is pretty funny

The best cookbook ever. While I'm talking about cooking, I have to recommend my favorite cookbook of all-time: The Vegetarian Bistro: 250 Authentic French Regional Recipes by Marlena Spieler. I use this wonderful cookbook all the time. It's filled with really good stuff: a roasted portobello mushroom recipe that takes less than five minutes of prep (and less than 30 minutes total) that will knock your socks off, tarts, salads, soups, even dessert! I've made probably 50% of the recipes and only one was lackluster (probably user error). If you're looking to spice up your cooking repertoire, I strongly recommend this book. [megnut]

while these look good, i think that for general handiness, the beat this series of cookbooks rules

Presentation Persisting and Surviving the Journal Review Process [PhDweblogs]

[Mathemagenic]

this is worthwhile

Woz gives Mitnick 1GHz PowerBook [The Macintosh News Network]

well at least he has a proper tool…

Cloned Cat. Cloned Cat Doesn't look and behave like the original cat.Public perception of cloning is clone=original, but we have the proof it isn't always true. Isn't that the proof complex systems doesn't always work like we want, so it'd better to slow down the marketing of genetic engineered food ? [MetaFilter]

so did someone finally realize the difference between genotype and phenotype or what?

Paradigm. Andreas Klostermaier suggests that Tinderbox leads a paradigm shift in computing. [Mark Bernstein]

in a few weeks i may be a believer..