2. Business
• Don’t forget response triads!
– Post your comments on the week after studio (e.g.
sometime today)
– Response to colleagues’ posts sometime on Friday
3. Review
• What are blogs?
– Form: posts in reverse order, RSS, trackbacks, tags
– Content: informal + public (liminal), personal
broadcasting, global vs. historical consciousness
– Function/effects: what is the place of blogging in
the information ecology?
• Witnessing – each person an eye on the world
• Same role as public opinion? (Toqueville)
• Question on the table: Are blogs suitable for
academic work?
4. Overview
• Follow up on seminar – “function” of blogging
• Scrum
• Exercises
– Using RSS to connect your WordPress sites to
other resources, e.g. Delicious
– Using ScribeFire
– Using Diigo and WebSlides
5. The Great Chain of Blogging
Comments
Blog Posts
Newspaper articles
and op eds
Investigative Journalism
Mostly commentary
on the news
6. The Great Chain of Blogging (ii)
Comments
included in
newspapers
Investigative
blog posts
Newspapers and
aggregated blogs
Investigative Journalism, Citizen
Journalism
Dan Rather incident
Daily Kos, Huffington
Post
10. Symbiosis
• Academic bloggers connected to …
– Other bloggers
– Journals
http://www.springer.com/alert/rss?SGWID=0-40691-0-0-0
– Publishers
– Newspapers
– Digital collections
• … through RSS, Plain Old Linking …
11. Exercise —Find online Academic
Journals
• Do this as a team
– One person on the computer
– One person documenting the results
• Go online and find academic journals that
match your topics (as a group)
– Use Delicious to bookmark them
– Tag them with MDST3703
– Document your results with a post
• Category
