Weblogs, etc.
Texas A&M
October 15, 2003
What are weblogs
Why are they so popular
What can we do with them
RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
News Aggregation
What is a weblog?
Personal Publishing system
Pre-designed templates
Chronologically arranged entries
Collections of links
Automatic Archives
Low maintenance
Simple, inexpensive start-up
So...?
Voice
Control
Persistent and Transitory
Simple to setup and use
Knowledge filtering
Multi-subjectivity
Examples
Tech News
Deb’s Blog
elearningpost
Kennebunkport Free Library
The Shifted Librarian
Examples
Windley’s Enterprise Computing
Bloggers who work at Microsoft
BloggerCon
BloggerCon bloggers
Weblogs' users don't vote within the site;
they vote by choosing the site as a reliable
source of guidance. In effect, they say to
the site's author: "you make the choices I'd
make if I had time".
David Walker
Weblogging software
Blogger
Movable Type
Radio Userland
And others...
Live Journal
Typepad
MT management interface
Powering Up
RSS
Rich Site Summary
Really Simple Syndication
RDF Site Summary
News Aggregators
Collection points
What is RSS
A format for syndicating news
and news-like sites
RSS can syndicate:
Major news sites (NYTimes)
News-oriented community sites
(Slashdot)
Weblogs
News Aggregators
...software that periodically reads
a set of news sources, in one of
several XML-based formats, finds
the new bits, and displays them in
reverse-chronological order on a
single page
from Dave Winer/Scripting News
News Aggregators
Radio Userland
FeedReader
Group Aggregators
Weblogs at Harvard Law
Finding News
Syndic8
NewsIsFree
Syndicate this site (XML)
Finding You -- Finding Me
Weblogs.com
Movable Type Recently Updated
Technorati
BlogStreet
Blogdex
Daypop
And in conclusion....
Weblogs
RSS (Syndication)
News Aggregation
Rather than claiming authority, blogs assume
subjectivity and let the reader make up his
own mind. Rather than a collection of
documents that define an object on the
Internet—for instance, a company, a
university, a person’s family tree—blogs are
glosses on those objects, marginal
annotations that ... have permanence of their
own on the Web.
Jarrett House North
We are constructing a social self. This is
fundamentally different than USENET or
email. My blog is a proxy for myself.
When you meet people that you've read
for a time you feel like you already know
them.
Dave Winer