Category: Blogs and Blogging Culture

At feedmap .net (BETA) : Where Blogs Meet Maps I created the following BlogMap,

Continue reading feedmap: a BlogMap for your blog

Blogs Will Change Your Business is a long and thoughtful article on blogging from a business perspective. I’m not sure I’m convinced that businesses will be able to dominate the blogosphere, but the authors make a case for how businesses can adapt blogs to business uses. (Swamp us with high production blogs and who will bother with the amateurs?)
The article gives examples of businesses and how they have used blogs and discusses how blogging can establish consulting credibility.
The article is by Stephen Baker and Heather Green, and has a May 2, 2005 date line as the cover story for the upcoming BusinessWeek Magazine. This is thanks to Terry Flynn.
Continue reading Business Blogging

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a guide on How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else) (published April 6, 2005). I find it amazing that people need to be told that someone will eventually read what they publically write – blogging is like gossiping – if you talk about people in public, even if in a small public, it will eventually get back to them. Don’t write anything you wouldn’t be ashamed for everyone to read (even though they won’t).
Continue reading EFF Guide to Blogging Safely

Exploring with Wiki is a “A Conversation with Ward Cunninghanm” by Bill Venners, Oct. 20, 2003. Cunningham developed the first wiki for discussion and discovery of software patterns. This link is from James Chartrand.

Have you found it hard to keep up with all the new things at Google? Well now there is a Google Blog. Just found out about Google Code where Google programmer post open source code and keep API programmers updated.

New Communications Blogzine is a blog structured like a newsletter that focuses on new forms of communication like podcasts and blogs. It is aimed at communications people in media and business. It is associated with “blog university” which is mounting New Communications Forum events. (You can see pictures from one in Europe posted to Flickr.
The blogzine has some good short stories about new developments.
This thanks to Terry Flynn.

Thanks to a blog entry by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum I was led to an article in Inside Higher Ed :: MLA about “Bloggers in the Flesh” by Scott Jaschik that speculates on academic blogging and whether it should count to tenure.
An interesting point Matt makes is that you have to write assuming that your wife, chair or students might read your blog. Holding ideas in plain view can both make one cautious and lead to embarassment. I have, on at least one occaision, had someone tell me they scanned my blog to figure out what I am like as a person. So … just to warn you all … the author of this site is just a character and doesn’t resemble any living being, least of all me.

Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education is a great blog by Bryan Alexander that Patrik Svensson pointed me to.

My logs show that starting the 22nd of December you all stopped reading this blog. Good for you! Of course, now Christmas is over, so reading is picking up. Does this mean everyone is turning back on the computers and surfing now that presents have been bought, wrapped and opened?

On CyberJournalist.net I found A Bloggers’ Code of Ethics. This code was adapted from a journalists code, so I am not sure if it should be applied to research blogs, but most of it reads right. Is there a research blog code? How would it be different?

Note, the link is no longer functional. Here is a different Code of Ethics from Morten Rand-Hendriksen. How to start a blog was also recommended to me as a place to get advice on setting one up.