The Blog Driver's Waltz (BDW): The Blogging World Archives

March 21, 2005

Blogs: Learning/leadership development in larger organizations

Lee LeFever has a nice set of links that will come in handy for future presentations on blogging. A number of the links were completely unknown to me and made for some very interesting reading. Check out Common Craft: List of Business Blog Resources

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CNN Covers bBlogs

USATODAY.com - It's prime time for blogs on CNN's 'Inside Politics'

“We want to demystify blogging,” Klein says. “We want to peel back all those layers and also do a reading of the blogs that our audience doesn't have the time to do.”
Klein chose Inside Politics for the segment “because obviously so much of the high-profile bloggers have a political bent on one side or the other,” and coincidentally, he also had decided that there was little room for shoutfests on CNN talk shows.

Now, every day unless there's breaking news, anchor Judy Woodruff turns the show over to CNN blog reporter Jacki Schechner and her colleague, political producer Abbi Tatton, who sit at computer screens and review who's talking about what on political weblogs.

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January 04, 2005

Blogger community supports Tsunami victims

Blogger Anders Jacobsen says that for every blogger who posts the following links to charities for Tsunami victims, he'll donate a dollar at the end of two weeks. I'm happy to support his efforts so here is his list...

International aid organizations:
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
United Nations World Food Programme
Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders (donate!)
CARE International
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

UK/Europe:
Disasters Emergency Comittee (DEC) - comprises a raft of aid agencies, including the below and others
British Red Cross
Oxfam
Save the Children UK

North America:
American Red Cross
Canadian Red Cross
Save The Children
Oxfam America

Anders Jacobsen: Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I'll give too!

[Listening to: I'll Take The Rain - R.E.M. - Reveal (5:51)]

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WMPtunelog For Windows iTunes

Not exactly earth shattering news, but I discovered that the creators of Zempt came up with a plugin for iTunes that allows you to post what your listening to in iTunes with the click of a button. Could be scary - yow! I'm glad Tom Waits was playing rather than my Milli Vanilli collection.

I had been playing with a so-called Windows version of iTunes Watcher but could never get it to do anything. Unfortunately, my wife didn't feel that this hardship warranted buying a new G5. Hard to imagine why.

[Listening to: Starving In The Belly Of The Whale - Tom Waits - Blood Money (3:42)]

[Listening to: Lullaby - Tom Waits - Blood Money (2:09)]

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October 28, 2004

Blogging resources

Into the Blogosphere has changed quite a bit since last I looked at it. If you're at all interested in blogs and virtual communities, you won't come away empty handed.

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. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others.

Into the Blogosphere is hosted on University of Minnesota's UThink site.

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October 12, 2004

JustBlogIt

Yet another handy blogging tool to have in your arsenal: JustBlogIt.

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May 20, 2004

UThink in Library Journal

Library Journal has an article on UMinn's blogging experiment, UThink. I'm still hoping to get some first-hand information from them about how the project is going. UM Library Offers Free Blogs

When University of Minnesota (UM) librarian Shane Nackenrud showed its library's new blog system to a faculty member in the philosophy department, he got his first indication that the program might be popular. "He was so impressed," Nackenrud recalled. "He said, 'You're going to have 100,000 users!'"

:: University of Winnipeg Library has started a BLOGs special interest group. You have to start the buzz somewhere, so why not find out who has an interest? Good idea, UofW!

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MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse

MT Blacklist 2.0 can't get here soon enough.

Now, to the reason for this post. On my way back from my Hungarian class (yes, I live in Hungary and am taking language lessons), I had what I would consider a flash of brilliance. This happens to me from time to time and when it does it's overwhelming. Usually it is easily remedied by a couple of antacids. :-)Anyhow, on the way back from class, I was struck seemingly by a hundred ideas at once. They came so fast and so clear that I simply struggled to write them down while also trying not to fall on the bus passengers next to me. That's difficult consider how fast Hungarian bus drivers drive. Anyhow, a great many of the ideas -- well, I'm really in love with them and I think you will be too. Thinking about all of this so intensely made me realize how close I was to the point of starting development on what I believe will be MT-Blacklist 2.0 (not sure yet about that). However, I realized that I haven't yet opened an entry to ask you all about what you want in MT-Blacklist. I really, really want to know...[blog posting from the creator of MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse]

Thanks to Christina for letting me know the bad guys had slipped through the cracks. Spammers seem to be upping the anti in the last few days, but I'm going to keep comments open out of principle if nothing else. My blacklist is available for others to use so feel free to grab it, and please let me know if you know fo any other extensive lists.

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May 18, 2004

Blogging Technology Going Open Source

Blogging Technology Going Open Source. Interesting move by Dave Winer to keep his code alive. May not be such a bad idea, considering there seems to be a mutiny brewing (more) for those currently aligned with Moveable Type. I'm somewhat disenchanted myself now that Six Apart has begun to shut down their "free enough" software, as Mark Pilgrim would call it. WordPress looks like a good plan B, although I'm going to cross my fingers that the somewhat vague and unpopular pricing schemes of MT change to favour their existing fan base. Only time will tell.

The technology at the heart of one of the most popular Web-logging tools is about to go open source. On Monday, the founder of UserLand Software Inc. said an open-source release of the Frontier platform, which serves as the underlying engine and runtime for the Manila and Radio UserLand blog-publishing tools, would become available within the next few months. ADVERTISEMENTWhile the company's board of directors has agreed to contribute Frontier as open-source code, the licensing model has yet to be decided, Winer said. Winer said he sought the open-source move as a way to ensure that the Frontier code lives on and as a way to help jumpstart new development on the platform. Frontier was first developed in 1988 and did not become a platform for blogging until 1996, when Winer launched a blog using it.

Interesting bits:
:: The RSS Advisory Board at Harvard
:: Why RSS is Succeeding
:: Time magazine now has RSS feed

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Back in the City

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4:7 (June 2004) is out and worth a look. Walt talks a bit about the time commitment that it takes to maintain professional blogs, much less a good quality newsletter like Cites & Incites. As my schedule continues to get busier, and the weather continues to improve, you may begin to see less and less out of the blogdriver. Once we make it through conference season and the wedding, the pace is likely to pick up again.

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4:7 (June 2004) This 24-page issue includes: * Perspective: Motivation: Monetizing the Zine? (Will there be a Cites & Insights after January 2005?) * Library Access to Scholarship - 4 pages Unraveling the Big Deal, PLoS and the Sabo Bill, and more * Bibs & Blather: You call this a Gold Edition? On milestone editions--and controversial issues * Trends & Quick Takes - nine items, from RFID to RSS * Library Access Perspective: The Empire Strikes Back A 12.5-page saga of open access, its detractors, the UK hearings, and the Nature discussion. * The Library Stuff - five items

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May 10, 2004

Blogger Gets a Facelift

Blogger has been given a shot inb the arm with a variety of new features and a fresh new look.

In 1999, Blogger was launched as a side project to help make it easy for a few Web geeks to update their homepages. That side project soon became the real deal and Google acquired us in 2003. Our new world is fantastic. Even the food here is amazing. In fact, it may have been Chef Charlie's kitchen creations that kick-started our thinking and put this pivotal idea in our heads: You Power Blogger. The features of a better, easier, and totally free Blogger have started landing. Climb aboard and let us show you around. [The Great Blogger Relaunch]

In many ways, Blogger appears to be playing catch-up with systems like MT and Typepad, and this is certainly a good leap forward. Features like being able to email a posting to your blog really do make blogging accessible for all but the very technologically-challenged. I'm sure mobile bloggers will also be rejoicing, since this will also allow wireless PDA users and cell phone aficionados to place their postings from their subway stop to their local Starbucks.

It is interesting that Blogger will only be generating ATOM feeds and not RSS (as well?). I'm one of many people asking, "Why can't we all just get along?"

:: Other news and viewpoints on changes at Blogger, check out: eWeek; Search Engine Journal; Reuters; adaptivepath or Technorati for the blogosphere's reaction.

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May 06, 2004

Semantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme

I'm looking forward to reading Semantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme

by Steve Cayzer, Research Engineer at Hewlett-Packard.
The semantic web promises to make the web more useful by endowing metadata with machine processable semantics. Blogging is a lightweight web publishing paradigm which provides a very low barrier to entry, useful syndication and aggregation behaviour, a simple to understand structure and decentralized construction of a rich information network. Semantic blogging builds upon the success and clear network value of blogging by adding additional semantic structure to items shared over the blog channels. In this way we add significant value allowing view, navigation and query along semantic rather than simply chronological or serendipitous connections.

I came across the paper via Price's ResourceShelf. I have to note a few of the other interesting papers he mentions, among them Eugene Garfield's, The FUTURE of Citation Indexing: An Interview with Eugene Garfield, and a nice overview on how to search blogs that I will add to my next resource guide for an upcoming blog presentation I'm doing for AALT.

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April 29, 2004

The Perfect Blogging Pitch

The Social Software Weblog has been running a contest to find the perfect elevator pitch that could be given in the following situation:

A business executive, with whom you have been trying to arrange a meeting, is available for a condensed pitch from you on a one minute elevator ride.
It is your goal to convince this attentive business leader — who has heard about weblogs — to sponsor and resource a critical mass of weblogs in his/her organization so that their benefits can be demonstrated in a meaningful way.

It’s a long elevator ride to the top floor of the Sears Tower in Chicago — [1,354 feet at 1600 feet/minute!] — visual aids are not available and your entry will be judged on your ability to present your pitch “on the fly” — just text.

Lee LeFever won the contest with the following response.

First, think about the value of the Wall Street Journal to business leaders. The value it provides is context — the Journal allows readers to see themselves in the context of the financial world each day, which enables more informed decision making.

With this in mind, think about your company as a microcosm of the financial world. Can your employees see themselves in the context of the whole company? Would more informed decisions be made if employees and leaders had access to internal news sources?

Weblogs serve this need. By making internal websites simple to update, weblogs allow individuals and teams to maintain online journals that chronicle projects inside the company. These professional journals make it easy to produce and access internal news, providing context to the company — context that can profoundly affect decision making. In this way, weblogs allow employees and leaders to make more informed decisions through increasing their awareness of internal news and events.[The Social Software Weblog]

Substitute “library” for “company” and maybe “information” for “business,” and you may also be prepared for that influential elevator ride.

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Mena on Moveable Type 3.0

Users of Moveable Type will be interested in Mena Trott's recent posting on the upcoming release of MT 3.0. I don't think I will be disappointed. Much of Six Apart's work has gone into developing TypeKey, a comment registration tool to help quel the infestation of spam hitting many unprotected weblogs.

Movable Type 3.0 is not the fabled Pro version as originally described. We had always imagined Pro as being a feature packed version that would contain all the features ever requested. What we've learned in the past year is that every user wants a different set of features, and we need to create a product that is not just feature-packed, but robust, extensible and geared toward a specific audience. Movable Type 3.0 and on will not be the solution for everyone, and that's okay. For some users, TypePad makes more sense. For others, non-Six Apart tools make more sense. [Mena's Corner: Where's the Beef?]

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April 26, 2004

Blogging Résumé

I was catching up on some of the Shifted Libarian's last posts, and noticed her pointer to John Udell's discussion of blogs as a living resume.

Alf Eaton writes today: I think the MP3 blogs (which are essentially annotated playlists) might well be taking the middle ground in the P2P vs music industry wars - I hope that the record industry will begin to see the value in what these grassroots enthusiasts are doing to promote their music. On the other hand, a large part of making these playlists under current laws involves turning your back on the major labels and concentrating on the music libre, the 'free music', the stuff that wants to be shared. Those artists that make their tracks freely available online are the ones that will benefit most from the collaborative filtering and recommendation networks that are being set up. [Hublog]
Let's extend that remark: Any professional whose work is visible on the Net will become part of the conversation that establishes reputation and creates opportunity. The blog is an active résumé that enables you to participate — by proxy — in that conversation. [Jon's Radio]

Randy and I make mention of this concept in our upcoming blog talk in Jasper. A co-worker, new to reading blogs, commented to me the other day that she was shocked by how many ideas and interesting conversations are taking place on the various blogs. I feel like I'm part of a discussion when I blog, and I do think my blog offers others a good idea of the types of things I'm interested in within our profession. There are a few people I know that I would love to see start blogging. It would be really interesting to see what's on their reading list or to hear the ideas percolating in their brains.

If you haven't tried blogging, now is the time! Use a blog as a fancy way of bookmarking, and before you know it, you will be adding annotations and commentary, and letting others join in on your good ideas. You could have yourself a living résumé before you know it.

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April 13, 2004

Georgia State University Libraries Blog

GSUL has a very nice library news blog (and feed) for library news, as well as subject specific blogs/feeds covering areas such as Issues in Scholarly Communication and Science News. This is a good example of using blogs to take current awareness services to the next level without overwhelming the intended audience with too much information.

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April 12, 2004

Paper Blogs

LJBook is a free (at least for now) service that offers to turn your blog into a book. That's right, a few clicks and you can take your blog from an online site to a printed .pdf that you can hold in your hands. I haven't tried it, although I probably would have if it didn't mean surrendering my login information and password (what can I say, I've put a lot of sweat into the blog and at this point, I'm not very keen on letting someone else get their hands on it, even if it is for only a few minutes). I'm not sure my blog would translate well into paper form. However, something like Randy's family history blog, would probably make a better candidate.

A LJ Book is a book with all your entries extracted from your LiveJournal, DeadJournal or UJournal (and WordPress - WP beta here - MovableType - MT beta Here)!It's a PDF Document ready for printing. It's produced in about 3-4 minutes.

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Links re: Blogging and Tenure

I came across an interesting posting discussing bloging and tenure. I'm doing some digging for a few upcoming conferences and started to notice how many more academics have joined the blogging cosmos since last I looked. The link to Rhetorica lists just a smattering of the academic blogs in existence, I'm sure to increase with services like UThink beginning to pop-up. Nevertheless, the posting on blogging and tenure...

I think of blogging as scholarship-in-process -- that is, in motion, live, and in-progress, whether it leads to publication, presentation, or edification. I've accumulated a number of bookmarks on this subject and thought I'd share a shortlist of them for anyone reading this who is interested. [PEDABLOGUE]

This little tangent started when I came across Univ. of PEI's School of Business blogs site, which has some interesting project management blogs, of which I'm trying rather unsuccessfully to write a paper about today.

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April 08, 2004

University of Minnesota Libraries Launches UThink

And away they go!! University of Minnesota Libraries has officially launched UThink, the first campus-wide blogging initiative I know of to be undertaken by a library. I've been following their progress for some time and will be very anxious to hear more about the reactions they get from their user community and the best practices they discover re: the administration of such a system. Well done UML!!

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April 07, 2004

XML.com: Hacking the Library

New site to watch -- XML.com: Hacking the Library

"Kendall Clark tries to figure out if he can make the librarians and the geeks happy at the same time." Wow. Talk about a challenge... [thanks for the link, Peter]

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April 05, 2004

Kinja, the weblog guide

Kinja, "the weblog guide," has been launched in beta.

Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics, everything from food to sex. Or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers. Weblogs are much talked about, but still challenging to navigate for the average web user. Kinja is designed to bring weblog writers to a broader audience, by making it easier to explore topics, posts and writers.

Kinja is an interesting albeit redundant twist on more advanced blog indexes like Technorati. Pretty packaging, tho. More on Kinja from the New York Times.

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April 02, 2004

The XML Files: All About Blogs and RSS -- MSDN Magazine, April 2004

MSDN offers up a what is and a how to on blogging and RSS in The XML Files: All About Blogs and RSS -- MSDN Magazine, April 2004 Nothing new here, other than their highlighting of .NET blogging applications.

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Executive Blogs

Another foot forward for business blogs...

Web logs, known as blogs, have mostly been the province of the young and trendy. Now, two senior executives of a trade organization, the Association of National Advertisers, have begun writing blogs.

The blogs, which are appearing at ana.net/blog, are being written by Robert D. Liodice, president and chief executive of the association, based in New York, and Dan Jaffe, executive vice president for government relations, who heads the Washington office.

Having Mr. Liodice and Mr. Jaffe become bloggers is part of recent efforts to persuade members and potential members "to think of this as a more contemporary A.N.A.," Mr. Liodice said yesterday. The group, founded in 1910, represents 340 companies that spend about $100 billion a year in marketing communications. [middle of page, New York Times]

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March 27, 2004

TypePad blocked in China

It looks as though China has blocked its citizens from accesing Typepad-hosted blogs. The only way that many bloggers have reported being able to access their site is via their RSS aggregators. The details are somewhat fuzzy, although the details and comments in this post reveal that there is most definitely an issue of censorship at work.

Many other websites have been blocked as of late as the Chinese government continues to bring the curtain down on its residents. The Globe and Mail recently ran a story on the blocking of the Trudeau Foundation site, which contains information on social rights and human justice, discovered in their logs that no one from China had accessed their site during the past year. “With sophisticated “sniffing” software, Chinese authorities routinely block or censor the sites of many organizations, including human-rights groups, religious organizations, much of the Western media, and anything connected to Tibetan or Taiwanese independence. One study estimates that 19,000 sites are regularly blocked in China, the most elaborate system of Internet censorship in the world.” [The Globe and Mail]

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March 24, 2004

Blog Survey of Privacy

Fernanda Viégas, a PhD candidate working in the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab has written a paper on privacy and liability. I'm not at all surprised by his findings. Over the course of the past year or so I've found myself becoming more and more conscious of how “loosely” I speak of events in my life and work. That said, blogging for me is still an exercise in learning, writing and development (professional and otherwise), and even though I choose not to talk about some things, I would still want to encourage serious debate before coming to a position on the limitations AND the freedoms of speech as they relate to weblogs (or any other public forum). I think a heaping spoonful of common sense can often go a long way.

Formerly viewed as a marginal activity restricted to the technically savvy, blogging is slowly becoming more of a mainstream phenomenon on the Internet. Thanks to much media hype and some high profile blog sites, these online journals have captured the public's imagination. As novice authors plunge into the thrilling world of blog publishing, they soon realize that publicly writing about one's life and interests is not as simple as it might seem at first. As they become prolific writers, more bloggers find themselves having to deal with issues of privacy and liability. Accounts of bloggers either hurting friends' feelings or losing jobs because of materials published on their sites are becoming more frequent. [Read more of Blog Survey: Expectations of Privacy and Accountability]

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Weblog Services Roadmap

Michael Angeles, Information Specialist at Lucent Technologies, shares his presentation, Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap, from Computers in Libraries:

I really wish I would have gone to CIL this year. I think a lof of the sessions would have been appealing.

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March 23, 2004

"It's A Blog World After All"

I've started work on a piece about managing teams and projects with blogs. It has been interesting to look at corporate uses of blogging software as an alternative to home grown or expensive CMS systems. The following article surfaced today:

Blogs were once the domain of angst-ridden teens and doomed presidential candidates. But the likes of Verizon, IBM, Microsoft, and Dr. Pepper are all climbing on the blogwagon. Turns out, Web logs are a nifty knowledge-management tool. And companies also see them as a promising medium for advertising (naturally). [Fast Company, It's A Blog World After All via OL Daily]

Advertising, of course, is never far behind.

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March 22, 2004

Lyceum

Pomerantz and Stutzman, "Lyceum: A Blogosphere for Library Reference." This paper will be presented at the upcoming Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Tucson, AZ. An interesting take on using blogs to facilitate the actual reference interaction itself.

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March 14, 2004

Radio Vox Populi

Crazy! Andy Baio (Waxy.org) left a comment a couple posts back about the Lego/Thriller project. I as checking out his site where he was discussing listening to Radio Vox Populi, the most jaw-dropping blog-related experiment I've come across! Have the world of blogging read to you one posting at a time over streaming radio. The station sounds like a debate between Short Circuit and my answering machine, but really is quite a fascinating idea.

The project comes from Media Lab Europe, "founded in July 2000 as a collaborative venture between the Irish Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Modeled on the Media Laboratory at MIT, Media Lab Europe was established as a hybrid between academia and the corporate world, to create a unique new centre of excellence in digital technologies." They are edoing some really interesting research, and their site has links to a number of interesting news articles about them, including one on tunA, "a playful combination of "tunes" and "ad-hoc," which describes the kind of network tunA uses. When two or more people using the tunA software application are within WiFi range of one another, they will see cartoon icons that represent other tunA users. By clicking on a user icon, you can see that person's MP3 playlist, and if you like it, you can click another button on the screen and tune into that person's audio stream."

I'm still listening to Radio Vox Populi. The posts sound so bizarre, read completely out of context, one at a time from different blogs, separated by the sound that you hear when you suddenly turn the radio dial away from a station. If nothing else, this makes for a great art project. I feel like I'm eavesdropping on the minds of thousands of people, from the high school kid that was just talking about the guy she is in love with, to someone talking about how sad they currently feel, like the time when they heard Kennedy was shot. Now we're on to the South Beach diet, no wait...a writer talking about an article they just wrote on The Passion of the Christ. Oh yes, and now comes a voice talking about George Bush's policies.

This is a sociologists dream...

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reBlogging RSS items and blog content

I stumbled upon Eyebeam reBlog, "a community site focused on art, technology, and culture. The guest reBlogger is filtering feeds provided by artists, curators, bloggers, and news sites. With the touch of a button the reBlogger selects material to share with the Eyebeam community." The interesting part of the reBlog site is that it integrates RSS reading and blogging directly, and I do mean direct, in that instead of marking a news item as read, you can actually mark it as "blogged." Third party software like w.Bloggar with SharpReader (see plugins) has facilitated this process, but not quite as seamlessly as the reBlog.

What is a reBlog?
A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favourite feeds, preview the content, and select their favourite posts. These posts are automatically published to a Movable Type weblog.

Why should you reBlog?
reBlogs are useful to individuals who want to maintain a weblog but prefer curating content to writing original posts. They can also enable organizations to tap the contributions of their employees, members, and communities-at-large in order to easily redistribute relevant content.

How Does reBlogging Work?
The reBlog was hack was originally developed by Eyebeam R&D to create a community site focused on art and technology: http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/. We used a system (Feed on Feeds) that aggregates RSS feeds, tweaked its simple interface for selecting our favourite posts, and modified it to use Movable Type to republish the content.

The bit about institutions is interesting to me. In thinking about how to re-purpose content on an Intranet, it becomes a little tricky if you want to display certain "must read" posts from several posts on the homepage, but without having to include the whole works or to go to to much wor trying to set up category feeds. For one project at work, I have had to setup a "public category" for feeds I want on our public page. However, this requires making sure the correct category gets assigned and for some reason, it just seems tricky for people to remember. With a reBlog, I could one click repost to items that anyone posted to the public news page. The great function when dealing with an Intranet site would be that if feeds are being read on something in Wired, Open Access News, or say one of your work team's blog, you could very quickly have individuals select what items are important, and even better! Voila! Less "got to read this!" email being sent around the office. [thanks to kottke.org for the tip, a site I do visit, but generally not via searching for dog blog sites?!]

:: As for the Eyebeam reBlog, all sorts of interesting Sunday morning reading:
|||| Shot-for-shot Lego remake of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" - or download wmv file ~~from Eyebeam~~
|||| Bluetooth Against Bush - weapons of mass persuasion? I'll have to get K to put this on her new Clie PDA so we can sniff out "the against us" (I don't think he meant these people) as opposed to the "with us" folk...
|||| TagandScan - Little Brother is watching... " TagandScan is a service for your mobile phone that enables you to mark real physical locations with an electronic tag."
|||| Dangermouse's version of what went into making the Grey album from MTV

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February 25, 2004

Integrating WebCT and Blogging

Building a "learning community" by integrating blogging and WebCT. Lots of good information from carvingCode.

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February 20, 2004

Iranians Gain a Voice Through Blogs

The proliferation of blogs on the Net means a lot of "guess what my cat did today" content. Yeah, so what. Blogging has merit for all sorts of different applications and venues--providing a mechanism for self-expression just happens to be one of them. For many Iranians, this purpose is anything but trivial.

Thousands of Iranian blogs have cropped up since late 2001 when an Iranian emigre in Canada devised an easy way to use the free blogging service Blogger.com in Farsi. Though several English blogs outside Iran are read by Iranians, the most popular ones are in Farsi and operated inside the country.Blogs offer a panorama of what's whispered in public and parleyed in private. People vent, flirt and tell jokes. They skewer the ruling clerics with satire and doctored photos %u2014 such as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei donning a Western business suit instead of his usual turban and robes.The anonymity of e-mail addresses and use of pseudonyms strip away any timidity. "We always wear masks in our society." said Lady Sun, who started her blog in November 2001 and later married one of its readers. "This is a place to take them off." [Iran's blog boom defies control, The Globe and Mail]

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February 18, 2004

Blogs + Politics = $

While I haven't made a penny off blogging, others seem to do quite well from them...

But that was before Chandler's campaign turned a $2,000 investment in blog advertising into over $80,000 in donations in only two weeks. Chandler -- who won a seat in the House of Representatives Tuesday evening -- definitely knows what a blog is now, Sauer said. "It's that thing that brings in money."

Political blog advertising represents the latest twist on the Internet fund-raising strategy pioneered by the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, which raised millions of grass-roots dollars from its Blog for America website. Chandler's campaign is the first of several that have started advertising on political blogs as a cost-effective way to reach a national audience.[Wired News: Blogs Pump Bucks Into Campaigns]

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February 17, 2004

Profs Blogging Bigtime at Stanford

More eduBlogging news...

Increasingly more Stanford professors are using "Web logging," more popularly known as "blogging"in their classrooms. Traditionally used for online social networking -- people write diary entries and others reply --blogging is now being used so that students can post messages and participate in discussions.[The Stanford Daily Online Edition]

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Blogging and RSS for Educators

From Information Today, Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators:

Two new Internet technologies, Weblogs and RSS (Real Simple Syndication), are redefining the way students and teachers use the Internet, turning them from mere readers into writers to the Web as well, and making it easier to filter and track the ever-growing number of resources coming online each day. In fast-growing numbers, educators across the country and throughout the world are finding just how powerful this new interactive Internet can be.

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February 12, 2004

Nieman Reports - Journalists Trade: Weblogs and Journalism

Somewhere during my preparations for the NAHLA blog talk I came across a reference to the Fall issue of Nieman Reports (Harvard) and a rather lengthy section on weblogs and journalism. The weblog articles begin on page 59 and end at page 98 of the PDF. The articles cover a wide range of topics and view points, illustrating both the pros and cons of blogging as it relates to journalism and beyond. I will copy a description of the articles into the extended entry if you would like to read more before downloading.

In this section of Nieman Reports, bloggers and journalists (some of whom wear both hats)
write about the points of convergence and divergence of Weblogs and journalism. What
separates these forms of communication? How do they influence each other? Is what’s
happening on Weblogs changing how journalists do their jobs and, if so, in what ways? Can
news organizations embrace Weblogs and maintain the standards of the craft?
Weblogger Rebecca Blood, author of “The Weblog Handbook,” tackles the issue of how
Weblogs and journalism are connected. Many bloggers, Blood argues, are a part of what she
calls “participatory media,” highlighting and framing news reported by journalists, “a practice
potentially as important as—but different from—journalism.” Blood does not expect that
bloggers will adhere to the journalistic standards of fairness and accuracy but regards
transparency “as the touchstone for ethical blogging.” Paul Andrews, a Seattle Times
technology columnist and Weblogger, contends that blogs, acting as catalysts, “are transforming
the ways in which journalism is practiced today … [by nudging] print media to richer and
more balanced sourcing outside the traditional halls of government and corporations.” Bill
Mitchell, editor of Poynter Online, envisions Weblogs as improving journalism by helping news
organizations “become more interesting, more credible, even essential.” As he writes,
“Especially when big news breaks, it’s tough to beat a Weblog.”
Tom Regan, who cowrites two blogs on The Christian Science Monitor’s Web site, gives
examples of how bloggers “have forced traditional news organizations to change the way they
covered a big story” and examines several areas of threat that some journalists feel from
Weblogs. J.D. Lasica, a blogger and senior editor of the Online Journalism Review, observes
that blogging communities exist on “grassroots reporting, annotative reporting, commentary
and fact-checking, which the mainstream media feed upon, developing them as a pool of tips,
sources and story ideas. The relationship is symbiotic.” And he contends, blogging is beneficial
to news organizations. Former investigative reporter Paul Grabowicz, who teaches journalism
students about Weblogs at the University of California at Berkeley, believes blogging can help
journalism “to regain the public trust” by inviting readers to participate instead of seeming
impervious to correction. “… this don’t-bother-calling-me attitude—all too common in
journalism—is a message that has been taken to heart by the public.”
Sheila Lennon, a blogger and features and interactive producer at The Providence
Journal’s Web site, explains how bloggers expand the news media’s agenda “by finding and
flagging ideas and events until traditional media covers them in more depth.” She shows how
her paper’s Weblog gave readers a way to share information about Rhode Island’s deadly
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nightclub fire in February and how that “reporting” helped to shape the paper’s news
coverage. Dan Gillmor, technology columnist and blogger for the San Jose Mercury News,
uses his newsgathering approach to illustrate how blogging conversations with readers
provides ideas and information for his reporting. While he is enthusiastic about this
participatory journalism, he recognizes that “Some of this journalism from the edges will
make all of us distinctly uncomfortable and raise new questions of trust and veracity.”
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, publishes two
Weblogs and thinks that blogging—with its ability to gather information quickly and from
everywhere in the world—will have a salutary effect on news coverage. As analysis and
punditry replace more expensive news gathering operations, Reynolds says that Big Media
would “be well advised to beef up their foreign bureaus and start reporting more actual
news.” By raising funds from readers to report via Weblog from the Iraq War, freelance
journalist Christopher Allbritton showed how interactive Weblog reporting can be done.
While acknowledging that blogs are not likely to “replace The New York Times,” he writes
that “blogs should be the seasoning—or maybe the garnish—in a reader’s well-balanced
media diet.”
Eric Alterman, who writes a Weblog for MSNBC.com, shares with us thoughts from his
introductory Altercation blog column in which he ruminates on what blogs are and why he,
unlike a lot of other bloggers, likes having an editor for his blog. He says, “Ideally, I think
every blogger would benefit from having an editor—and from knowing a little bit about the
way journalism is produced (and conceived).” Mark Glaser, a columnist at Online
Journalism Review, describes bloggers’ insatiable appetite for being linked and notes that
“the attention of bloggers can’t help but make journalists do a better job in their reporting.”
Keven Ann Willey, editorial page editor at The Dallas Morning News, writes about the
paper’s new Weblog, which lets readers find out more about the thinking that individual
editorial board members bring to the process of forming the newspaper’s point of view.
“It’s a delicate thing, blogging our opinions in ways we hope will help clarify and
enhance—not confuse and degrade—what we do and why we do it,” she says. At the
Houston Chronicle, former reporter Steve Olafson was fired after he created a personal
Weblog and wrote commentary on it using a pseudonym. “My message to editors is this:
Embrace the blog; do not fear it.” Hartford Courant editor Brian Toolan explains why he
demanded that a staff editor stop writing opinion pieces on his own Weblog. “This is not an
issue of freedom of speech,” he writes. Mike Wendland, who has two Weblogs and is
technology columnist at the Detroit Free Press, describes how blogs connect him to new
story ideas. “… with blogging, when readers can add commments and suggestions to my
posts, my assumptions are routinely challenged, corrected and defended.”
Jane E. Kirtley, a professor of media ethics and law at the University of Minnesota,
writes about the protection Webloggers have (or don’t have) under the First Amendment.
But, as she points out, “… once somebody’s published material goes outside our
borders—which is inevitable in cyberspace—all bets are off.” Larry Pryor, who directs
the Online Program at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for
Communications, shows us how professors use a Weblog as a teaching tool with journalism
majors, who produce the blog’s content under close supervison of editors. “I’ve seen how it
[working on the blog] helps students to make their writing more concise and focused,”
Pryor says.

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February 11, 2004

NAHLA Workshop on Blogs

Hi NAHLA members. As promised, the workshop slides have now been posted.

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February 10, 2004

Jarrett House North : Dave Winer at Microsoft, February 9, 2004

Harvard blogger, Dave Winer, took a trip to Microsoft recently to talk about blogging, RSS and other web technologies. One of Microsoft's employees, the owner of Jarrett House, has posted a paraphrased transcript of his talk, as blogged live by the author. Winer raises some good discussion topics, among them his mention of the "emails of interest" scenario...

Dave part 3: Bloggers in organizations as information routers

I came to Harvard a few months after a conference where they said, "The dot-com thing is over. What do we do with the Internet?" And they decided to share information across the schools using weblog technology. And that's how I got the job.

Think about it this way: In every workgroup, there's one person who sends emails saying, "Here, you've got to check this page out." In a sense, that person should be running the blog for the workgroup. Instead of emails, you get a trail that can be searched, checked by date, added to a taxonomy. When a new person comes on they don't start from scratch. It also facilitates information sharing. While not everyone in the organization will be interested in this and subscribe to everyone else's feed, if one person in a workgroup does this, that one person could act as an information router. Will everyone do this? No. But couldn't we do better at moving information around organizations.

This is where the excitement is: using this flow, using open standards, a low tech approach. And I think Microsoft could do well here.
[Jarrett House North : Dave Winer at Microsoft, February 9, 2004]

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WordPress

I came across a number of blog entries tonight discussing WordPress, a blogging tool that has quietly made its way onto the scene. At first glance, it looks like a very good CMS and dare I say a possible alternative to Movable Type, should I ever get adventurous (not anytime soon). It looks to have a lot of the functionality that MT version 3 is promising, and a lot of the features that TypePad currently offers.

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February 09, 2004

MT/PHP powered portfolio

Movable Type tip: John Hicks describes how to build a MT/PHP powered portfolio.

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January 30, 2004

Bibliographic Life Cycle Management

Library Groupware for Bibliographic Lifecycle Management by Dan Chudnov, Yale's Center For Medical Informatics. If you work in a library, and you are at all interested in the IT side of things, and you read only one thing today, then this should be it. A very thought-provoking piece that is well researched and articulated. I haven't read a lot of material that synthesizes the potential of tools like link resolvers with something as "everyday" as a weblog. Dan's vision is grand--no doubt about it--but I think he makes a strong case that the tools and our ability to develop services, such as those similar to what he is proposing, need not be light years away. We (Dan's library/my library/libraries in general) are already making progress on a number of the finer points, and I do think there is a growing recognition that to be in the practice of librarianship means that we must look beyond just the storage, retrieval and delivery mechanisms of the information itself, but also towards the development of services facilitating the users processing of the information in a meaningful way. A colleague had passed on an email today relating to this: an analogy parallelling what would have happened had the railroad tycoons thought of themselves as being in the transportation business rather than just the railroad business. Who knows where they might be now? In my mind, I'm clearly in the information transportation business, that is, helping customers at every stage of their "information journey."

Summary
This informal paper proposes that libraries could merge the functions of weblogging, reference management, and link resolution into a new library groupware infrastructure, helping users to better manage the entire life cycle of the bibliographic research process. Several scenarios explore how such an application suite might help library users by integrating their bibliographic research more closely with communication -- scholarly and otherwise, from private annotation to public discussion. A discussion of related architectural issues suggests a new model of "link routing" to augment "link resolution," and describes how link routing systems could enable library visitors to become users of our groupware services as much as they already are users of the information resources we procure. [Read the paper]

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January 29, 2004

How Blogs Work

Next time I do a blogging basics session, I will include a pointer to "How Blogs Work"-- a nice little summary from the infamous How Stuff Works site, a great resource for learning the basics about..., well, pretty much anything. [via Kimbalina, one of the many Google employees maintaining a weblog].

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January 28, 2004

UBC Offers Blogging! Wikis! RSS! Oh my!

Ahh!!!...I mean "great!" UBC is offering a number of collaborative, or "social software" services, to its community. In digging for some info on a presentation I did last Spring, I discovered that UBC's Office of Learning Technology is offering blogging, and wiki services to "anyone in the learning community." Good for them!! Brian Lamb, from the OLT, has a number of articles in their campus news about Wiki's, RSS, and other gems that are slowly making it onto the radar here at home.

It's encouraging to learn about these services, and I'm very pleased to read that universities are experimenting with these tools. That said, I can admit that I'm a little envious of these initiatives, although it is definitely easier to sell an idea on the homefront if you can point to working examples and experiments done right. A "keeping up with the Joneses" argument never seems to hurt the debate either. Randy and I did a session on blogs for the broader university community a while back. Perhaps its time to ignite the RSS flame. Any cohorts willing to join pens for a Dispatch article? (Normally, I would be emailing this message around to the blog troops but our email is currently down for the count.)

:: Looking for a Wiki primer? David Mattison has the goods...

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January 20, 2004

blogs.setonhill.edu

Interesting. Very interesting. blogs.setonhill.edu

Seton Hill University students and staff can get a free Movable Type weblog, courtesy of the humanities division and the new media journalism program. (Thanks to Six Apart, makers of Movable Type.)

Blogging meets the academy. Nice. Very nice.

:: University of Minnesota Libraries looks to be one step closer in setting up a large scale MT installation for students and staff. I didn't have a clue what x.500 id meant but it sure sounded good.

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January 09, 2004

Get thee to a library school!

There is no question that we need to continue to promote the strengths of our profession if we want to recruit the brightest and the best. ACRL has put together a very useful recruitment page with a number of interesting resources for both recruiters and recruitees to use. There is even a very well done streaming video on academic librarianship, Faces of a Profession@Your Library, which is available for download (requires Real Video).

Recruiting to the Profession Video (streaming file, requires RealMedia player)
Streaming video highlighting the role of academic librarians and the satisfactions to be realized in the profession. Includes interviews with academic librarians who discuss what they do and why they made their career choices. This video is also available for download as a zipped file. After downloading the file must be uncompressed and can then be played using RealPlayer.

[Found via a path of links originating with the newish blog, Beyond the Job - Professional tips for librarians: Articles, job-hunting advice, professional development opportunities, and other news and ideas on how to further your library career. Compiled by the Library Job People, Sarah Johnson and Rachel Singer Gordon.]

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January 02, 2004

US Navy tries blogging for team communication

Yet another example of blogging making its way into organizational communication strategies... ScienceDaily News Release: Blog, Blog, Blog: The Navy Tests Web Logging For Team Communications

Blogging, or keeping a weblog, is often seen as a solitary effort. An individual can type frequent updates onto their log, sharing opinions or ideas with anyone with Internet access. The future of blogging could look a lot different. The Office of Naval Research and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) are testing out the idea that weblogs can be powerful communication tools to bring together teams of people.

The ONR and NUWC are leading a government-industry team to develop a blog as a promising new approach to speeding up the exchange of information on new defense technologies--and thereby speed up getting the technologies into the field.

The blog is one of 12 pilot programs, selected for funding from a field of 120, for demonstration through the DoD Rapid Acquisition Incentive-Net Centricity (RAI-NC) initiative. The RAI-NC, managed by the office of the Pentagon's chief information officer, aims to demonstrate processes to speed up the development of net-centric, "transformational" approaches to defense technology development and acquisition. [Blog, Blog, Blog: The Navy Tests Web Logging For Team Communications]

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December 17, 2003

Enterprise Blogging, Part Deux

I thought I would share a few findings as a follow up to an earlier post. I had originally posted these as comments, but I realize a good chunk of readers probably only read the site through an aggregator.

Here are a few articles/sites that talk about enterprise or business blogging:
:: Blogging for Business, PC Magazine (Enterprise Solutions section, Dec. 20, 2003, p.74 (I read the paper version, and there are quite a few blog/rss/wiki articles)
:: Blogging For Business [EContent]
:: Technophile: Blogging for Business
:: Weblog Business Strategies Conference & Expo 2003

The PC Magazine article is interesting. The author spends a good chunk of the article describing the blogging of Western States Information Network (WSIN), who use blogging as a communications solution. WSIN is "a federally funded agency that collects, analyzes, and shares crime information. Based in Sacramento, California, WSIN was founded in 1981 as one of six regional centers that provide a knowledge-sharing link between the federal government and local law enforcement agencies. WSIN serves approximately 1,100 law enforcement organizations in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, ensuring that local crime-fighters have easy access to current data and analysis." The following sounds very familiar with how I came to blogging in our library (sans the bit about the Homeland Security conference I'm happy to say):

Just a year ago, communications within WSIN and between it and member agencies was conducted via e-mail. Information was also shared over a secure intranet. Both methods had disadvantages. "People would receive duplicate e-mail messages," says Karen Aumond, assistant director of WSIN. "You'd have to remember to save them or they'd be purged. And it was not accessible on the road."

The system also used resources inefficiently, with some messages stored on seven different systems. Posting directly to WSIN's intranet was, in theory, a better way to share knowledge, but anything posted online had to go through a Webmaster first, which took time.

In December 2002, Aumond attended a homeland security conference, where she discovered Traction Software's TeamPage Enterprise Weblog software. Immediately, she saw how blogging technology could help WSIN in its mission.

Any other news, examples or articles of late? I'm all ears.

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December 16, 2003

Zempt

I was showing some people at work how to use Zempt today. Zempt is a great little app that provides a multi-platform interface for posting to blogging software like Moveable Type. However, what I forgot to tell my work mates about was the great little extension that allows you to highlight content in IE, and then right click to blog about it. Brilliant!

Consider yourself told - enjoy! : )

BTW - W. Bloggar does the same sort of thing. It works great with SharpReader for blogging items that you come across in your news aggregator.

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Moveable Type

We were playing around with MT and RSS today to see what we could make it do. Using MT at a team management and marketing/communications level has been a good start, but we're coming up with more and more ideas for ways in which we might use it as a primary CMS tool for our Intranet, library guides, and main website. BTW - I'm collecting examples of corporate intranets or large-scale enterprise projects that use weblogging software. A number of articles have been written in trade publications, but rarely do they show or describe actual examples. Please let me know by way of comments or email if you know of any examples.

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November 12, 2003

Conference Idea!

I just came across a really neat idea that is being tested at the 2003 Online News Association Conference in Chicago. Attendees will have the ability to share their new ideas and interesting bits of knowledge that they have picked up by posting to a conference weblog. The live participants blog postings will be featured on the journalists.org website.

“Since this is a gathering of online journalists, we wanted to make the conference as interactive as possible,” said Conference Chair Jonathan Dube, who added that a blogging station will be set up. “The idea is to help everyone share the insights we have over the course of the conference with not just a few others, but everyone.” (PRNewswire).

What a great way to hype a conference and let others know about what they are missing! What does it take? Not much — a public station, an internet connection, and a simple blog app. I'll keep this idea in mind for the next time I'm involved in organizing an event.

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Blogs and Course Mamagement Systems

Frank Tansey has written an interesting article in Syllabus discussing the parallel worlds of blogging and course mamanagement software.

During the closing plenary session at the Syllabus Conference last July in San Jose, I made a comment about the software I was using to create and maintain my Weblog or blog. I was struck by the questions and comments my brief remark generated. A few years ago, mentioning blogging software would have caused a faint ripple of recognition in the audience. However, it seems clear that blogging is coming to the academy.

I've often wondered whether the next version of WebCT will have some sort of blogging mechanism integrated into its design. It seems like such an obvious tool for facilitating group projects, research sharing and collaboration.

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November 10, 2003

Comment Spam Manifesto

Adam Kalsey has produced a manifesto on comment spamming in blogs. If a trackback consititutes signing the manifesto, then consider me signed.

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November 06, 2003

How To Keep an MT Entry at the Top of Your Webpage

Good question.…

I found the answer at Kevin Donahue's blog. This is going to come in really handy for a lot of our library-related weblogs. Nice work, Kevin!

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October 16, 2003

Comment Spam (continued)

Scriptygoddess has posted a nice summary of tactics to use against spammers. I'm (knock on wood) relatively spam free at the moment, which is quite a few steps forward from where I was a few days ago.

There is a lot of discussion going on right now about now regarding comment spam and how to stop it. Comment spam is basically a comment posted to your blog that may/may not have anything to do with your post (I've seen/had it both ways), but it will include a link either within the comments or from the authors “website” for a commercial website. Most of them seem to be selling herbal products, Viagra, or direct mail items. The idea behind stopping comment spam is two-fold: First, no one wants their website to be a graffiti wall. Second, this seems to be just the first “wave”. Many of the spam comments are being done by a few individuals actually trolling for MT websites. The real deluge is coming as more and more automated “bots” start searching the web MT comments forms to auto-fill with their spam messages.Continued reading Anti-Comment Spam Tactics…
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Kevin - blog.kevindonahue.com
[scriptygoddess.com]

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October 15, 2003

Blogging presentations to consider

These presentations, given at the New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NEASIST) program are definitely worth a look.

Great news!! The program that I took part in about weblogs, Google & RSS won the ASIS Chapter Event of the Year award [Library Stuff]

Great stuff! Congrats on the win!

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The Blog Driver's Waltz (BDW)

Odds and ends from Geoff Harder.