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Motivation to blog

2004-11-13T06:40:09Z

Hello :)
I have a new blog site set up as part of a research project, we have students blogging about their smoking or the process of quitting smoking. We gave them space, a list of topics to write about and I'm now spending quite a bit of time trying to motivate them to blog. E-mails suggesting more personal, relevant topics seem to be somewhat effective. I think the inexperience with the technology is also a bit of a deterrent to them.
Any suggestions about encouraging a stronger sense of community or more motivation to blog between seemingly random bloggers?
Thanks,
Emily

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Why I like Tribe

2004-11-13T06:10:45Z

I wrote this to a friend as she joined, but I just realized that I wanted to share it with others too, in case you just joined Tribe.net to humor me, and don't yet see the value of this service.

BASICALLY EMAIL IS A DYING INTERFACE

It no longer serves us, it is inundated with spam, and worst of all, its interface is constructed in a chronological In-box that actually leads to neglect of people you care about, giving undue preference to the most recent thing.

RADICAL IDEA: creating trust networks as filters, networks you can visualize as the faces of your various circles of buds who smile out at you in their pictures (or their bunnies, or artwork, or whatever represents them on that given day).

I'm really getting excited about possibilities with Tribe, mostly because Tribe sets up trust networks that are like filters, keeping spam from getting mixed in with correspondence from people you already know you care about because you hand-picked each one.

Secondly, tribe also allows you to visualize your friends, remembering to write to people, where otherwise the note from someone that you put of because the reply deserved more thought might be pushed constantly off the screen by spam or just daily traffic on regular email.

The things you care about play second fiddle to crap, in other words. What kind of screwed up system is that?

What I'm saying is, tribe puts the important thing in the center: PEOPLE, and messages, events, & discussion are secondary to the goofy faces of folks you trust. That's why it is worthwhile to invite your bestest buds to join. It SAVES time and could increase the quality of the connectedness.

Chris

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Into the Blogosphere

2004-07-08T00:43:05Z

Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/

ed. Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman, University of Minnesota

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. The collection takes a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others.

Into the Blogosphere is a first in many ways. Along with its being the first scholarly collection focused on the blog as rhetorical artifact, the editors also offer an innovative approach to intellectual property and to publishing. There are a number of peer reviewed journals in digital format. However, with an edited collection, the desired outcome is usually a hard-copy book, so the standard process has been to turn to a publisher with a proposal, then typically wait several years before the book actually comes out.

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Aggregators

2004-01-26T21:47:57Z

Do you use aggregators to get updates in the bunch of your choosen blogs?
I have not found any that I woul find comfortable and started a project that would be something like an active bookmark list - it would let you maintain your list of bookmarked pages and see where were updates since the last time you have read them. I think the information about updates is the real usefull feature of aggregators and the marginal usefullness of having headlines displayed does not justify the difficulty of using RSS, and many (if not most) sites I read don't have RSS feeds anyway.

Do you think such tool would be usefull? Would you use it?

Mine will be web based - so it won't be so slick as something integrated into the browser, but a centralized database of links will let me build some additionall functionality - like browsing bookmarks of your friends, comparing bookmark lists, and searching for people with similar bookmark lists.

An alternative would be to code it into some Open Source browser (mozilla?), this would help the user experience, but I am intrigued about the mentioned additionall functionallities so I decided to go the web interface way.

What do you think?

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What do you think?

2003-10-14T02:27:23Z

Of this business with New York Magazine hiring The Gawker's Elizabeth Spiers.

Here is some Jason Calacanis spew about it, for what it is worth. For some reason the related links don't show up on the permalink, and no RSS feed or comments, and he thinks it is a blog, but I won't go there...

http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/entry/5563571824635558/

This page has the related links at the bottom.

http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/

Anyway, I'd be interested in what y'all think.

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An interesting paper

2003-10-13T19:06:39Z

http://www.well.com/~art/s+b42002cm.html

From 4th Qtr 2002 of "Strategy + Business, Karen Stephenson's Quantum Theory of Trust. Aside from the business angle (sometimes one has to put up with this) it is very intriguing.

Here's an excerpt:

Companies can analyze, engineer, and elevate their own human networks, says the pioneering social scientist.

Think back to a conversation you had months ago with someone you know well enough to trust, but with whom you haven’t spoken since. Chances are you’ll remember only vague outlines of the exchange. Call the person and raise the same subject again, though, and more likely than not, the two of you will find yourselves picking up where you left off, remembering the details of significance and expanding into new areas.

To Karen Stephenson, a maverick yet influential social network theorist, the association between trust and learning is an instrument of vast, if frequently untapped, organizational power. The act of reconnecting and talking with a trusted colleague generally triggers a resurgence of mutual memory, opening the gates to fresh learning and invention. This phenomenon, Professor Stephenson contends, is just one example of the direct cognitive connection between the amount of trust in an organization and its members’ ability to develop and deploy tacit knowledge together. Because networks of trust release so much cognitive capability, they can (and often do) have far more influence over the fortunes and failures of companies from day to day and year to year than the official hierarchy.

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Oooh, an interesting post

2003-10-11T19:42:12Z

over at social software. I just wanted to share the links and excerpt with you:

http://www.doorsofperception.com/In+the+Bubble/details/68/

Excerpts:
"We now design messages, not interactions. The world is awash in print, and ads, and billboards, and packaging, and spam. Semiotic pollution. Brand intrusion at every turn.
Our buildings are now about one-way-communication, too. Sports stadia, museums, theatres, science and convention centres. Such buildings do an accomplished technical job: they deliver pre-cooked experiences to passive crowds. ...
Luckily, the era of the creative class is over. Point-to-mass advertising, onanistic art, and big-ticket spectacles, are over.

We are in a transition to a post-spectacular, post-massified culture. Our cities, from now on, will be judged by their capacity to foster collaboration, encounter, intimacy, and work. Much like cities used to be judged, before they fell into the hands of the creative class."

"[M]obile phones and networks do not make the city disappear. On the contrary, they render the city itself more powerful as an interface."

Re: from tribe to neighborhood, and back again
Good one !
I'd like to combine that with this :

http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/NoNoO.html

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Blog Ratings

2003-10-10T02:33:17Z

What are the best blog rating sites? I know of Blogdex, but that seems to rate blogs by how many other blogs have linked to them. Are there any sites that rate blogs by number of views or comments?

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Article on tribe in Wired

2003-10-08T04:40:09Z

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60703,00.html

BTW, TypePad has launched officially Oct 6 and I noticed today they pulled a quote from my cnn.com column and put it up in the banner. Cool!

Chris

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The Shifted Librarian tells all

2003-10-07T04:47:19Z

Tells what she wanted to say at BloggerCon.

http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/stories/2003/10/04/whatIWantedToSayAtBloggercon.html

Now, I wasn't there, but I been roaming around at some of the postmortems, looking at pictures, and I noticed one BIG glaring thing. Nearly all the panelists at this shindig were MEN. Jenny and 2 other women appeared nearly as tokens, and Jenny (The Shifted Librarian) seems to say in this post that she didn't even get her time to speak. Jenny and and another woman were on the Blogs in Education panel, so no stereotyping there, eh?

And I'm wondering what's up with this, you know? As if you don't know.

Anyway, the best part is, you can read Jenny's blog and not have to sit through all the testosterone holding the floor.

Chris

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CJR on blogging

2003-10-04T02:23:05Z

CJR (Columbia Journalism Review) Issue 5: September/October 2003

http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/5/

A whole issue on blogging. Not sure what I think of it. The one article seems good. The lists of blogs are interesting. But the one on blogging tools seems massively thin. But I was just skimming.

Chris

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Journalists Fired for Blogging

2003-09-27T18:06:31Z

I just want to use this thread to aggregate some links and discussion about the phenomenon. Here's a few I pulled in today:

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001360.shtml

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2002-08-08/hostage.html/1/index.html

I think this site has been edited, so am archiving part of it here:

http://www.tschang.net/index.htm

Sunday, September 21, 2003

Spent most of this weekend updating my resume, preparing clips and meeting with friends in the journalism business. (Just realized that I got the dates of employment in the old version of my resume I sent to Bloomberg. Oops.) One of the Reuters reporters mentioned that he also had a blog but the company asked him to take it down. I'm starting to wonder how many other journalists around the world have had to take down their blogs because their employers are scared of litigation or authoritarian governments. At least Reuters didn't fire the guy.

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Friday, September 19, 2003

I got fired from Bloomberg today because of this web site. I'll post more about it later but I need to start networking like mad now and find a job. If anybody knows of any job openings, email me.

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