I’m still not sure who’s here exactly. Yesterday we heard a rumour that almost everyone here was at one of the two previous BlogTalk, and that it was going to be a very closed social group. However, most people we’ve talked to […]

Lee Byrant showed Ross Mayfield’s graph describing what he calls the power law of participation. Lee Byrant’s talk was about a system they’d build to support knowledge sharing in an international law firm, and he was talking about the many different levels […]

[Kathleen’s post on this session is much better than mine…] Adolfo Estallela – blogs from communicative to connective artefacts Web 1.0: Social bounded situations. Social interactions were held through text and images. Technology was just a context. E.g. chat. Web 2.0 different: […]

Social software defined as only new things, largely because of a few events – one on social software, then consolidated when E-tech set down a separate group for social software. Left out listserves, email, MOOs, and the many other kinds of pre […]

Scott showed me George Bush “singing” U2’s anti-war song “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” – go have a look, it’s brilliant. Now I want a database of tiny videoclips of Bush, cut into word-by-word sections and catalogued so that I can type in a […]

Back in August, Torill was having trouble with her voicebox and wrote a post about her worries that she might lose her voice, finishing with this paragraph: Yes, I am scared today. Scared enough that I am deeply unhappy about the male […]

I’ve found the flow of writing! Not perfectly, but I know what I’m doing and where I’m going, and today when I switched from the chapter on the prehistory of blogs to sketching my article for the WoW anthology I was actually […]

I can barely believe, that in all those years of studying literature and literary theory, no professor and none of those anthologies of literary theory mentioned the rather startling fact that Barthes’ “Death of the Author”, which was obligatory on the curriculum […]

Torill usefully connects my dislike of MyBlogLog’s use of my personal information on third party websites to the recent uproar over Facebooks unilateral change of their displays of personal information, or fittingly, information about connections between people. Dennis Jerz quotes Wired: But […]

So you know how some of you have had trouble with getting 500 Internal Server errors when you post comments? I’ve had the same trouble sometimes when posting – and when I’ve done so the problem has always been solved when I […]