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Blog Glossary
If you have coined a word or expression specific to the blogosphere (there’s one for a start), submit it to Samizdata’s Blog Glossary quick smart, and get your name up in lights. Or if you are a mere mortal, go there and check it out anyway. There were a few there that were new to…
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Edward Said and the Role of the Public Intellectual
I thought it was timely to reproduce some of the late Edward Said’s typically perceptive, but ultimately optimistic, thoughts on the alternatives to mass mediated culture – in particular the role of the independent intellectual, from which I think we can extrapolate to the role of the blogger: On one side, a half-dozen enormous multinationals…
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Research Blogs and Interdisciplinarity
Anne Galloway has put together an interesting post on interdisciplinarity (specifically concerning sociology, anthropology and ubiquitous computing). The comments to her post link back to earlier questions about the balance between readability and complexity that I think are relevant, not only to academic blogs, but to all specialist writing (boy, the unadulterated geek talk of…
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Blogs as Outboard Brains
Swimming against the “blogs are exhibitionistic” tide, back in May last year Cory Doctorow described his blog as his outboard brain . This would be closer to the way I see my blog as well – a way of annotating the chaotic multimedia map that is my mind, and a way of forcing myself to…
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Creative Networks: Smaller, Better, Smarter
Tom Morris has responded to my previous post on “mass amateurisation” with a thoughtful piece on the personalisation and decentralisation of the web: While personalisation and decentralisation may be just buzzwords at the moment, with the rise of the independent web we might see these becoming much more important: your own agent search engine finding…
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Blogger Weblogs: Tweaks for Non-Geeks
[Note: This is one of the posts imported from my old Blogger-powered weblog. As you can see, I’ve made the move to Movable Type, but I’ve left this post intact in case someone finds it useful.] If you have a BloggerFree-powered weblog that you are keen to make more interactive without making the move to…
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17th Century Blog
This deserves a plug: Samuel Pepys’ Diary encoded as a blog, hyperlinked to the bejeezus, and updated daily (i.e. today’s entry – 29 Aug 1660) – proof that there is nothing new under the sun.
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It’s official: blogs have genre boundaries too
I know I am a little late with this one, but it links up with recent (actually, probably more forthcoming) posts about genre containment – that is, to define is to exclude, to place in a relation of difference from some other alternative. And as anyone who has ever had to write an entry in…
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Blogging Goes to University
Weekly INCITE: “:: Weekly INCITE :: INCITE is an Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography. It is based in the Sociology Department at the University of Surrey. Here, INCITE’s bevy of researchers report on matters methodological and theoretical, and discuss their various research projects as they progress.” Go Surrey, this rocks! Meanwhile, certain…