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We'll be reading this essay - Blogging thoughts: by Torill Mortensen and Jill Walker early in the semester.

The authors take a look at blogging as a remediation of academic research - a nifty perspective that's worth exploring. It's also published in a pdf

posted by morgan at 5:36 PM

 
One of the early bloggers is being republished in real time starting Jan 1, 2003. Phil Gyford (who also keeps his own blog on Movable Type), is presenting an entry from Pepys’ Diary each day. Entries are annotated in a sidebar, and people and places are annotated in hypertext.




posted by morgan at 5:21 PM

 
Snagged from Jef Raskin - Manual v37

EPIGRAPH

It's extremely important to always bear in mind that we are all creatures of habit, down to the most minute detail, so we tend to confuse what is "natural" with what is "comfortable." Things that are comfortable are so almost entirely because we are used to them. When things become habitual through repeated application, they start to feel natural because we can't imagine them any other way; but we have to take a few steps back and objectively reassess what we do in order to find out whether our comfortable habits are actually natural and efficient.

--Murray, Peter. "Essential Bass Technique".
Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee WI 2001
used by the kind permission of Peter Murray

and a cleaner statement of habit, nature, and comfort I haven't read.

posted by morgan at 8:18 PM

 
Getting a handle on blogging

How about looking at kinds of bloggers? Here's a start: kuro5hin.org || technology and culture, from the trenches
posted by morgan at 11:53 AM

 
topic idea

There's a growing emphasis (and popularity) on "knowledge building," "knowledge sharing," "knowledge bases," and the like (and more problematic terms are hard to find). While this is a tip o the hat to social construction, the intersection of knowledge creation and rhetoric is being left out of matter. Or, in short terms, knowledge building - and the state of knowledge - goes relatively unexplored as a rhetorical act.

In a like manner, the state of knowledge encompassed on a wiki (or a blog) hasn't yet been delt with.

But here's a starting point -

Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research (1/2) - 16 Dec 2002
posted by morgan at 9:11 AM

 
Rebecca's Pocket

I have been looking over Rebecca Blood's blog and am quite impressed. It does have the personal touches on parts of the site while the initial content in the blog is over current events and she adds in her two bits.

The hypertext essay feel I get from this site is fantastic. It seems I can just sign up for a blog and manipulate links and borders until I can have a full blown hypertext essay. Perhaps as time goes on, that is what will happen to mine. Rebecca Blood's blog is definitely a place to check out if you are interested in blogs.

P.S.
I seem to get a "runtime error" everytime I access our blog address. Maybe it is a PC problem.
posted by Ayleen at 11:26 AM

 
Test entry

It would be convenient to use one blog for both the course calendar (required readings, assignments, exercises) and course news and readings from everyone in the class. But we need a way of calling attention to required notices. Perhaps a font color will work. ('Course, someone else could spoof the calendar but a) they would incur the wrath of others, and b) the name of the poster appears at the end of the posting.)

We also need to establish a convention for using a posting title to differentiate postings made on the same day. Use the bold tag to format the title.
posted by morgan at 3:14 AM

 
Hey, Ayleen

Obviously your posting worked. On the admin side, I can edit it.

At first, I was thinking about using this blog for letting anyone in class post news and readings, but I'm concerned that too many posters will create some confusion. I'll confine this one to course assignments and readings. I may keep it open to a few users, and will ask someone in the class to set up a team blog for other class news.

Have a look at Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research, a consideration of using a blog for research. I just glanced at it, but it looks good.
posted by morgan at 2:38 AM

 
A Test post
Since I heard of blogs I have been an addict for a few months now.
Hello. My Name is Ayleen. I am a blogaholic.

In the beginning I just created a blog that seemed to be just a journal/diary/flames section on the internet for my use. At first, I was sporadic and didn't quite know how to treat it. Now, I am always trying to find something interesting to say, even though I know my blog isn't publicized in the mainstream. In fact, I don't even let my grandparents or mom see it, since it usually has subjects that I don't think they would appreciate. Nothing racey, but sometimes a post that has a few expletives included.

Now, as my senior project comes closer and closer to being done, I have utilized another blog to keep track of my information and progress. I will eventually link the blog to the website so my audience may see what I had to do to get the information. This has been a great tool for me and I am really excited to start a class dealing with blogs - wikis too, since I had set up a wiki page for myself.
posted by Ayleen at 11:24 AM

 
The power (legit?) of bloggers. Thanks to Carl via Stacey.

According to On the Media, Trent Lott's "inflammatory remarks were intitially ignored and it was only days later that the story came under mainstream scrutiny. But according to New York post Columnist John Podhoretz, the comments were not ignored by bloggers-amateurs and professional pundits with their own websites." Might be worth pursuing further.

posted by morgan at 11:14 AM

 
A new posting to check the new login.
posted by morgan at 5:04 AM

 
A second entry to update the template.
posted by morgan at 9:44 AM

 
This is the calendar blog for ENGL 3930/5930: Blogs and Wikis, Spring, 2003. It's a team blog: students will be invited to become posters during the first week of class.

I will use this blog to post assigments and course information. We will all use this blog to post daily announcements and links to what we're working on.

posted by morgan at 9:36 AM