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Discourse network 2000 Does technology influence what we write?

Kimberley Spreeuwenberg | 15 October 2009, 1:18 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

How do the tools that you use for writing influence what you write? Alan Liu researches this relation between technology and writing. He argues that our reading and writing is part of “discourse network 2000”. We structure our knowledge more and more in XML (extended markup language) and databases and this, according to him, influences not only how we write, but also what we write.

We don’t need to read your blog to review it. And you don’t need to write it.

Nicola Bozzi | 04 October 2009, 1:39 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

It all started by doing what every active internet user does once in a while: egosurfing (or something like that, I wasn’t looking for my own blog – this one here – but for the one I work for).
I googled “yskira.com” and found, at the 8th position on the first result page, a link…

A review of: Blogging

Suzanne Schram | 17 September 2009, 7:19 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Blogging is written by Jill Walker Rettberg. She is a blogger her self. On her blog she presents her self as “an associate professor at the University of Bergen, and I do research on how people tell stories online.” This book is part of the digital media and society series. This

BOOK REVIEW ’say everything’ by Scott Rosenberg

Kimberley Spreeuwenberg | 17 September 2009, 10:58 am | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Rosenberg, a former newspaper journalist and co-founder of Salon.com, gave himself the difficult task of recounting the history of blogging and – as the subtitle indicates – providing an idea of what’s to come and ‘why it matters.’

What is a ‘blogger’?

Chris Castiglione | 14 July 2009, 1:25 pm | 4 comments | tags: , ,

The definition of a blogger is commonly given as “someone who maintains a blog”. Yet on many sites, including Wikipedia and Dictionary.com, ‘blogger’ does not have its own page, ‘blogger’ forwards to the page for ‘blog’. This week I made an attempt to define ‘blogger’ on Wikipedia…

Picnic 2008 report: Surprising Africa

Guido van Diepen | 29 September 2008, 1:42 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Citizen journalism in Africa

‘Bring the world to Africa and bring Africa to the world.’ (Gisel Hiscock, talking at Surprising Africa)

Hiscock, one of speakers at the Surprising Africa conference, held a lecture about Google’s interest in giving information-access to the one billion Africans. Apart from giving them access to information, these same Africans need a way to share their…

PROblogger: book review

Jasper Moes | 19 September 2008, 12:59 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

PROblogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income[REVIEW]

INTRODUCION
For some time now I’ve been interested in the eBook phenomenon for a couple of reasons: the business model that lies beneath it (how to make money by selling information…internet marketing is a fascinating hobby), and the information that is being shared by the rapidly growing number…

It’s the definitions, bloggers.

Michael Stevenson | 16 December 2007, 7:22 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Lately I’ve been taking a shovel to the Internet Archive, looking for material on the history of blogging. It used to be that a query for ‘blog history’ would return a number of would-be Spanish civil war buffs, but that’s changing now. More and more, attempts are made to sum up the various ins and outs of the movement that brought us permalinks and LOL cats.

Comparing dirt

Maarten van Sprang | 06 November 2007, 3:44 pm | tags: , ,

One of the most popular blog-phenomena can be found in the celebrity gossip corner. In contrast to the paper tabloids these weblogs can be way faster with the latest gossip and are generally more sarcastic. I will bring forth 4 different digital tabloids and introduce all of them before concluding on the differences and similarities.

blog.google.com: Internet finally subsumed by Blogs

Michael Stevenson | 18 October 2007, 4:30 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

It is well known that Google, which depends on every link it indexes to recommend search results, has a certain ‘vulnerability’ that blogs expose. Bloggers are professional-amateur-pointers. They publish frequently, they link a lot, and then they syndicate others’ links. Affectionately put, they give link love. But does Google love them back? (Note the URL in the screenshot below)