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The online academic journal Reconstruction has a special issue devoted to blogs and blogging. It includes a paper from one of my favourite Aca/Fans, Danah Boyd, entitled ‘A Blogger’s Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium’. What follows is a summary/simplification with a tiny pinch of comment. She’s talking about the difficulties involved in defining the medium, Ewan McIntosh has been good enough to provide his notes for a talk giving an introduction to blogging he gave at an LTS event. Archly titled ‘Just because you can blog in one click doesn’t mean you should…’, his talk covers seven main themes: Authenticity: Don’t make your people take the 5th Amendment Some (mild) outrage about the Jackie Danicki post about her tube attacker here and here and here. There’s talk of lynchin’s in them there blogs. I find that quite bizarre. Jackie — who I don’t know — was verbally and physically attacked during a tube journey and posted about it, together with a picture of A new report into customer engagement produced by e-consultancy reveals that UK firms are likely to significantly deepen their commitment to Web 2.0 technologies over coming months. The authors, who polled 800 internet and customer experience professionals to obtain the results, found that: 42% are planning to apply user-generated content (UGC) to their websites in Continue reading Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Britain I was intrigued to read the headline ‘Widow PC Caters to World of Warcraft Fans’ on Gizmodo. It turns out that it’s a high-end PC with a very fast network card to optimise your connection to the game. Boring. However, it made me think, and I’d like to register my copyright on the BlogWidow PC I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Techmeme. It’s very useful for days when you haven’t got time to read through your RSS subscriptions (viz. most days) and just want a snapshot of what the techies in the blogosphere are talking about. On the other hand, it tends to focus very heavily on the supposed |             | |||
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