Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research (1/2) – 16 Dec 2002
“…In this two-part document, I analyze an emerging form of knowledge sharing that I call personal knowledge publishing. Personal knowledge publishing has its roots in a practice known as “weblogging” that has been rapidly spreading…”
By way of elearn space.
Absolutely fascinating article on the use of weblogs – primarily from an academic/research usage angle. It references a lot of good articles on the social aspect of running a weblog (immediate peer review, quality pushes to top through intra-blog linking).
One interesting aspect was that blogs act as a global business card – I would direct any new client/colleague here to get an insight into what i think about currently – and some bloggers definately use them as self advertisements – I love the fact that a single person/tiny company can build a worldwide reputation through a free software publishing tool.
Another interesting thread was based around the social aspect of blogs – the type of people who write them (sharers, often professional types whose job is to explain and have more to gain by sharing knowledge than holding onto it) and the fact that blogs (and the reputations that develop with them) allow social networking. It’s also down to the intrinsic nature of mutual-linking – I’ve mailed a few complete strangers and vice versa – I do feel some of the excitement of the early days of my web usage – nervously posting to newsgroups and….getting a reply!
I think participo’s next move is to a dedicated server – and then to structure meta-tags, start submitting it to technorati, blogdex etc etc.
I’ve also enabled TrackBack, a feature that should ping weblogs that I point to (wonder if this appkies to rss feeds as well?) and vice versa.
I need new friends! :-)