The Shifted Librarian: Blogs Vs. Wikis Presentation A short article – with useful links. The comments are handy. I’ve not really got into using Wikis with students, though I have used blogs. I think that Wikis could have some roles that Blogs haven’t got, hence my interest in the comments that have been posted, which…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
A cognitive analysis of tagging
A cognitive analysis of tagging Rashmi Sinha looks at several aspects of tagging. One point she makes is that a single item can have several tags – whereas “categories” suggests that you just have a single “label”. She makes the point that digitally, incorrect categorisation can be problematical – as you have to reassign items…
Video Blogging
Wired Blogs report on a collaboration between VideoEgg and SixApart aiming to make video blogging much easier than it currently is. It only works (at the moment) with SixApart’s TypePad service, which isn’t a free service, so, while VideoEgg is free, it’s not possible to get a ttally free video blog that’s easy to use….
Classroom Blogging
bgblogging: Classroom Blogging Archives A long post, but very informative. Barbara Ganley is writing about 3 blogs. The first is hers (this post is in it) – focussing on technology. The other two belong to her students – first years and Junior (I think Junior is 2nd year!) One of her key points is: why…
Information strategy: filtering
Ton’s Information strategy: filtering Ton Zijlstra has an article about how he copes with the “information overload” that comes from following RSS feeds. He’s got some useful diagrams covering information flow back and forth….
KM Bloggers Community
Mathemagenic: Lilia Efimova has created a diagram of how her & others blogs about Knowledge Management interlink. There’s also a link to the abstract of a paper that she & others are working on, looking at how blogging communities build up….
Blogger for Word
Blogger for Word A useful tool, for Blogger users, especially those that feel happier writing in Word, with the spelling & grammar checkers etc. I’ll have a go with the old Blogger account later, and see how it goes. For spelling, I tend to use either IE Spell, or, more frequently now, Spellbound for Firefox….
Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~
Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Blogs need planning, just as much as any other sort of website. So, Steven looks at what you ought to think about before starting out, should you want to have a popular blog….
the biases of links
Many-to-Many: the biases of links, in particular the differences between male and female bloggers. This is a really interesting article (as is the ref to a bog about Blogher that Danah gives at the start.) It seems that different systems have different gender balances as well, but is Live Journal 75% female, because of the…
Blog a second
Will Richardson quotes the results of a recent study at Technorati , which shows that perhaps 80,000 blogs are created a day. The Technorati report lists the increase in blogging sites, blogging tools, drift to mobile blogs etc. They just look at those blogs that register with Tecnorati (and remove those that appear to be…