Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 141.
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[1] From: "Milena Radzikowska" <milena@yardog.ca> (8)
Subject: Re: 17.134 research on blogging
[2] From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois (21)
Lachance)
Subject: Re: 17.134 research on blogging
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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 06:38:32 +0100
From: "Milena Radzikowska" <milena@yardog.ca>
Subject: Re: 17.134 research on blogging
Hello,
I presented a paper on blogging at the Communicational Spaces 2003
Conference, at the University of Alberta, this past May. You can look at my
abstract, references, and the PDF presentation on my blog:
http://www.yardog.ca/blog/blogging.html. I am still putting the finishing
touches on my paper and it should be available on my blog very shortly.
Good luck!
milena radzikowska
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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 06:38:57 +0100
From: lachance@origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 17.134 research on blogging
Willard,
Perhaps some of the Humansit subscribers who are participant-experts in
blogging would care to venture a post or two on the following research
topics:
1) searching the blogsphere
Given the lag time search engines such as Google and Altavista have in
indexing WWW sites, how does one navigate the blogsphere apart from the
embedded links in postings or the lists of links to blogs found in the
sidebars of many (but not all blog sites).
2) accessibility of the blogsphere
A quick history of weblogging software might reveal some sociological
indicators: which accessibility and cross-platform questions arose when
in the discourse; what reactions did the questions sollicit.
Try using a browser such as Lynx to access some weblogs and observe which
features "translate". There is some dynamically generated data that
doesn't cross in some cases (depending upon the software used to run the
blog and the design principles incorporated in that software).
In short, there is room for a machine-centred research agenda.
-- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance
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