Re: [Futurework] Blogging 101 ~ Huh? ???
Karen Watters Cole wrote: *BLOGGING COMES TO HARVARD* Can anyone kindly correct me if I am wrong about what blogging is. Here's my understanding. Help me see how there's more to blogging than this: (1) You get yourself some web space (a URL). (2) You pick a topic. Maybe it's: (A) George W Bush's statements and facial expressions about Saddam Hussein, or maybe it's (B) the bodily fuilds I [and/or my cats, baby, etc.] expel each day. Either one or anything in between or elsewhere, e.g., (C) The day's headlines from major newspapers, or (D) Things I read or heard that I found interesting, or (E) [you fill in the blank]. (3) You make entries about your selected topic on your web page, always placing each new entry at the top of the page. I presume when the page gets big enough, you split it into 2 pages and link them to each other (you keep splitting as the log keeps getting longer...). (4) You inform people about your web publication by any means at your disposal, from telling your family about it, to getting a New York Times reporter to mention it in a NYT story on technology, etc. Maybe Harvard will have a directory of Harvard hosted blogs? Is there anything more to blogging than this? --- It certainly looks very democratic. Anybody can do it, and there's no guarantee that it will be read by anybody. In this way, it seems to fit in with other things like pulling levers on a voting machine, etc. Blogs seem generally pretty meaningless to me, although I can imagine exceptions, where the person web logs information that would otherwise not be available [Our blogger on Mars...]. Why should Harvard be so interested in blogs? Or is Harvard talking about researchers maintaining online synoptic directories of their ongoing research, for refrerence by other researchers and indexing/analysis by web search engines? That might be very useful. My personal website has been somewhat organized blog-ly for several years, including my log of quotations I have encountered during the day and found interesting, and my What's New? listing in reverse chronological order of things I've added or changed. The words self-publishing and vanity press come to my mind in regard to both what I have done and also blogging. What am I missing about blogs? It's certainly a dismal: heavy, plodding... sounding word. \brad mccormick Harvard University has given software developer David Winer a fellowship and the assignment of leading the Blogs at Harvard Initiative and showing Harvard faculty and students how to create and manage blogs (short for Web logs) on subjects of their choice. Winer says that blogging will ultimately be a basic skill like e-mail or using a word processor. It's going to be like writing, and that's why I'm at a university now. We'll teach all the students and the teachers how to do it, and in turn they'll teach their students. So we're getting ready for the long haul here. Asserting that in some areas, like tech reporting, the Web logs have largely replaced the professionals, he adds: Journalism is a high calling, but it's really no more than points of view on what's taking place. I think the pros are going to use this tech, and they are doing it more and more. Winer predicts that blogging will have a *profound effect on education*, and says: I've already gotten e-mail from tons of educational institutions that want to be up on what we're doing. [Question for you: Who in our NewsScan community have created their own blogs? -- JS] (CNet News.com 25 Feb 2003) http://news.com.com/2008-1082-985714.html From Above the Fold @ www.newscan.com http://www.newscan.com/ -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) ![%THINK;[SGML+APL]] Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Visit my website == http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ ___ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
Re: [Futurework] Blogging 101 ~ Huh? ???
Hi Brad, Your discourse on blogging seems basically right. Keeping a blog sounds alot like keeping a personal journal, but now it's on-line, full of links and commentary, and everyone invited to look over your shoulder. Naturally, some people's journals will be way more interesting than others. So, for ewxample, you and Ray and Keith and Harry and Karen could each have one (or several) blogs in which (on which?) your FW contributions mark part of your day and contain links to the blog-sites of the others. H. Would I rather follow a discussion thematically, as on a List like FW, or would I rather follow an individual (or corporate person) bloggingly? I think I'd prefer a topical LIST (+ perhaps a small collection of particularly interesting individuals - a colleague thinking out loud, for some reason, about stuff I'm interested in). Some FW-ers have a virtual or shadow blog here on FW, no? So, yes, I can participate in FW and, as I am moved, go visit Brad McCormick, Ed.D. at http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/. Why should Harvard be so interested in blogs? People at Hahvahd are committed to finding each other particularly interesting, wouldn't you say? Or is Harvard talking about researchers maintaining online synoptic directories of their ongoing research, for reference by other researchers and indexing/analysis by web search engines? That might be very useful. Yes, but it's very bad for your patents pending ... Keeping a blog might also interfere with just getting on with your work. We haven't reached the day when keeping a blog IS your work --- FW TOPIC HERE. ... Winer predicts that blogging will have a *profound effect on education*, and says: I've already gotten e-mail from tons of educational institutions that want to be up on what we're doing. Sounds like hype - after all, this is the salesman speaking. Anybody know of exemplary blogs to visit? Stephen Straker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vancouver, B.C. ___ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
Re: [Futurework] Blogging 101 ~ Huh? ???
Stephen Straker wrote: [snip] Why should Harvard be so interested in blogs? People at Hahvahd are committed to finding each other particularly interesting, wouldn't you say? I'm sure this has always been true, but I'd think Friday afternoon sherry in the Departmental office is more appealing and less time consuming than Friday afternoon blogging Or is Harvard talking about researchers maintaining online synoptic directories of their ongoing research, for reference by other researchers and indexing/analysis by web search engines? That might be very useful. Yes, but it's very bad for your patents pending ... Keeping a blog might also interfere with just getting on with your work. We haven't reached the day when keeping a blog IS your work --- FW TOPIC HERE. Whose work? I keep reading that even people like Salon.com have trouble getting people to pay for web content. Or do you mean that a person who lives on unearned income chooses to spend his or her time writing a blog, and that the blog is, in that slightly unusual sense, their work? ... Winer predicts that blogging will have a *profound effect on education*, and says: I've already gotten e-mail from tons of educational institutions that want to be up on what we're doing. Back around 1983, I had the idea of all the school assignments being oriented toward the student building a *portfolio* of their accomplishments. I called it: Not destined for the trash can. Each assignment the student did, they would think if it could improve upon and replace (etc.) something already in the portfolio. The student would, as a part of their studies, study the portfolio process and its social role I thought that was a good idea (I still do). But I don't see it as much like blogging. Rather, now that the student can put their portfolio on the Internet, it would be: Here is what I have accomplished and am proud of, if you want to see who I am and what I can do (the connection to a resume or any kind of admission application should be obvious...). I sure did not have anything to show for myself when I graduated from high school or college. Sounds like hype - after all, this is the salesman speaking. Anybody know of exemplary blogs to visit? I'll be interested, too. And I will even try to give technical thoughts about them, as well as substantive critique of the content. The medium is the co-message (sort-of Marchall McLuhan) \brad mccormick Stephen Straker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vancouver, B.C. -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) ![%THINK;[SGML+APL]] Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Visit my website == http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ ___ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
RE: [Futurework] Blogging 101 ~ Huh? ???
I read www.instapundit.com just about every day. In much the same way that one might glance through the op ed page in the NY Times (do that as well.) arthur -Original Message- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:20 AM To: Karen Watters Cole Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Blogging 101 ~ Huh? ??? Karen Watters Cole wrote: *BLOGGING COMES TO HARVARD* Can anyone kindly correct me if I am wrong about what blogging is. Here's my understanding. Help me see how there's more to blogging than this: (1) You get yourself some web space (a URL). (2) You pick a topic. Maybe it's: (A) George W Bush's statements and facial expressions about Saddam Hussein, or maybe it's (B) the bodily fuilds I [and/or my cats, baby, etc.] expel each day. Either one or anything in between or elsewhere, e.g., (C) The day's headlines from major newspapers, or (D) Things I read or heard that I found interesting, or (E) [you fill in the blank]. (3) You make entries about your selected topic on your web page, always placing each new entry at the top of the page. I presume when the page gets big enough, you split it into 2 pages and link them to each other (you keep splitting as the log keeps getting longer...). (4) You inform people about your web publication by any means at your disposal, from telling your family about it, to getting a New York Times reporter to mention it in a NYT story on technology, etc. Maybe Harvard will have a directory of Harvard hosted blogs? Is there anything more to blogging than this? --- It certainly looks very democratic. Anybody can do it, and there's no guarantee that it will be read by anybody. In this way, it seems to fit in with other things like pulling levers on a voting machine, etc. Blogs seem generally pretty meaningless to me, although I can imagine exceptions, where the person web logs information that would otherwise not be available [Our blogger on Mars...]. Why should Harvard be so interested in blogs? Or is Harvard talking about researchers maintaining online synoptic directories of their ongoing research, for refrerence by other researchers and indexing/analysis by web search engines? That might be very useful. My personal website has been somewhat organized blog-ly for several years, including my log of quotations I have encountered during the day and found interesting, and my What's New? listing in reverse chronological order of things I've added or changed. The words self-publishing and vanity press come to my mind in regard to both what I have done and also blogging. What am I missing about blogs? It's certainly a dismal: heavy, plodding... sounding word. \brad mccormick Harvard University has given software developer David Winer a fellowship and the assignment of leading the Blogs at Harvard Initiative and showing Harvard faculty and students how to create and manage blogs (short for Web logs) on subjects of their choice. Winer says that blogging will ultimately be a basic skill like e-mail or using a word processor. It's going to be like writing, and that's why I'm at a university now. We'll teach all the students and the teachers how to do it, and in turn they'll teach their students. So we're getting ready for the long haul here. Asserting that in some areas, like tech reporting, the Web logs have largely replaced the professionals, he adds: Journalism is a high calling, but it's really no more than points of view on what's taking place. I think the pros are going to use this tech, and they are doing it more and more. Winer predicts that blogging will have a *profound effect on education*, and says: I've already gotten e-mail from tons of educational institutions that want to be up on what we're doing. [Question for you: Who in our NewsScan community have created their own blogs? -- JS] (CNet News.com 25 Feb 2003) http://news.com.com/2008-1082-985714.html From Above the Fold @ www.newscan.com http://www.newscan.com/ -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) ![%THINK;[SGML+APL]] Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Visit my website == http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ ___ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework ___ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
