I haven’t read this freshly published paper yet, but will soon. It’s one of the first papers on blogs to be published in a peer-reviewed academic journal: Edmonds, K. Andrew, James Blustein and Don Turnbull. “A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator”. Journal of Digital Information, 5:1, 2004. Actually it’s not exacltly about blogs but about using blogs as a basis for thinking about knowledge organisation.

The Next Big Thing is being grown organically, cultivated by software developers and pruned by personal Weblog publishers. The rising Weblogging space of the Internet is looking more like traditional hypertext than the Web of the 1990s. The ways in which Weblogging has evolved beyond the previous limitations of the Web as hypertext, and the ways Weblogging is evolving towards common-use hypertext destined to play a critical role in everyday life, will be explored. We have a vision of a universal information management system built on extending the traditional hypertext framework. In our utopian future, everyone will use tools descended from today’s blogs to structure, search and share personal information, as well as to participate in shared discussion. We begin by expressing a vision of common-use hypertext for information management and interpersonal communication. This vision is grounded in the rapid evolution of Weblogs and known issues in information systems and hypertext. The practical implications of who will use these systems, and how, is expanded as usage scenarios for Weblogs now and in the future. After recapping the current issues facing the Weblogging community, we look to the long-range implementation issues with optimism. Our system is forward-looking yet realistic. The activities the system will support are extrapolated from recent developments in the online community, and most of the sketches of implementation are based on current approaches. It is of more than passing interest that the features we extrapolate were all described by Nelson as early hypertext ideals. Of particular interest is that the features are now being implemented because of perceived immediate need by communities of interest.

4 thoughts on “paper on blogs

  1. thomas n. burg | randg

    Hypertext for Knowledge Sharing
    That goes on the reading list.”qu” paper on blogs I haven’t read this freshly published paper yet, but will soon.

  2. Rogers Blog

    Blogs as a basis for thinking about knowledge organisation
    In our utopian future, everyone will use tools descended from today’s blogs to structure, search and share personal information as well as to participate in shared discussion. Just as Nelson (1990) envisioned a network where everything is deeply …

  3. Brain Frieze

    Scholarly Research on Blogging
    By way of jill/text comes a link to one of the first “scholarly” takes on blogging and the future of this kind of hyper-textual technology. (By scholarly we mean

  4. incorporated subversion

    A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator
    What’s that thing about waiting for busses and then 3 come at once…via Jill who says “It’s one of the first papers on blogs to be published in a peer-reviewed academic journal” comes this article : “The Next Big Thing is being grown organically, cultiva

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