weblog
as a
personal thinking space
Lilia Efimova @ Hypertext 2009

weblog uses
for developing ideas
in a long-term project

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working
on a dissertation
weblog
as a knowledge base

autoethnography

weblog
as a knowledge base

web-based, low-threshold, public
creating personally meaningful
dormant or social
chronological
organising running titles, links to own posts
categories and tags
maintaining primarily on-going
location-based browsing
retrieving search
patterns

working
on a dissertation

things
that do not fit
parked in a
trusted external repository

everyday
interactive
grounded theory

fragmented bits
shitty first drafts
manageable chunks
real audience

working
on a dissertation
weblog
as a knowledge base

scale and conditions
papers in one’s office
holding pattern
primitive language
contextual cues
demonstrable output
networked research
learning from personal traces

Lilia Efimova (aka Mathemagenic)
Slides and links
blog.mathemagenic.com/2009/06/30/ht09
PhD stuff
iceberg.novay.nl
blog.mathemagenic.com/phd/dissertation