tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181762712009-12-04T07:26:45.385-06:00Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17416532968964381567noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18176271.post-61880231112378110432006-12-28T02:55:00.000-06:002007-09-09T14:12:26.550-05:00

My FTP traffic went through the roof, apparently due to some of these RSS feeds, and that was expensive, so I've started running everything through Feedburner. If you've been accessing the feeds, please direct your links to the new feedburner addresses.

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While adding a friend's Magisterarbeit to the article master list, I decided to go through his references for other articles I'd left out.This is more than I usually do; I'd rather get the Discourse History finished, and Google Scholar currently has 24,400 hits for "blog." (I wonder if the bads hits cancel out the articles it can't find? A newspaper piece on blogging, for scholarship purposes, is

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I asked, and within the hour Prof. Sandeep Krishnamurthy sent me a copy of his 2002 essay "The multidimensionality of blog conversations: The virtual enactment of September 11." That's what I like about this field.Why did I not do this when I was writing my thesis? I suppose I wasn't getting much sleep back then; I can't really remember.The essay contains a fair bit of definition, and is often

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Linked to the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication on every page, because they publish a lot of blog articles and let everyone read them. An excellent resource.I also added another article, Dave Winer's "What Makes a Weblog a Weblog?"Is it just me, or are his old Weblogs.com articles "The History of Weblogs" and "What are Weblogs" prettymuch identical? I mean, that's OK, and I could be

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New addition: Lindahl, Charlie, and Elise Blount. "Weblogs: simplifying web publishing." Meh, nothing you don't already know there. It's 2006.Notable: this article is one of many early blogosphere studies articles (or maybe that's all in my head) in which websites like Robot Wisdom and Rebecca's Pocket aren't cited as sources, though they're used as sources in the text. I'd like to think we have

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Finally finished the Discourse History expanded-and-hyperlinked cite for "On the Bursty Evolution of Blogspace." The major discourse articles I haven't gotten to are nowhere near as oft-cited.I was definitely right in thinking that there was a whole other discourse community here: for the most part, these was very little overlap between the technology types who cite this article (Japan is huge

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17416532968964381567noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18176271.post-91014200737576337412006-12-08T15:00:00.000-06:002006-12-08T16:12:30.807-06:00

If you have a blog article or updated "cited by" information to add to Dan's Metablog, or if you're a theorist/writer/author/metablogger with a better article access link for me, email me at ourboldhero [at] mailhaven [dot] com. Or comment anywhere, I'll see it.I can't believe I've never said that before. My mom used to tell me that if I didn't encourage user-participation, the big bad Web 2.0

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17416532968964381567noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18176271.post-1154306917519508162006-07-30T19:46:00.000-05:002006-07-30T19:50:31.526-05:00

Graduated, etc., so there's been quite a bit going on recently. My access to scholarly articles is now severely limited.There won't be any updates to this or any Dan's Metablog page for at least a month; by then I should know what I'm doing.

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My browser crashed (PDF overload) just as I'd almost completed the discourse history post for Ravi Kumar and company's "On the Bursty Evolution of Blogspace," and like some sort of Blogger rookie I'd forgotten to save my progress in a text file, so, yeah.I haven't read it yet, but just going through the cites I was struck by two things. First, by the apparent separation between this discourse

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I've been too hard on Herring et al. Their study "Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs" is useful information when used correctly, and it's usually used correctly.The study used a sample of 203 blogs to draw some conclusions about blogging. As I've noted before, there are so many restrictions on this sample (e.g. the exclusion of LiveJournal and Diaryland blogs, 6) that it's clearly a

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Rather than expect anyone to read a 21-page post, I've put up my master's thesis as a PDF.My advisor thought the end was too self-deprecating, and after reading it over again I'm starting to agree. Short answer: I didn't know how to end it... it's more of a demonstrative essay. Or something.

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Well, I didn't sleep, but I'm done. I changed the name of the paper at the 11th hour, to the all-too-simple "Theorizing the Diary Weblog."There's a whole ideology behind that title but I won't get into it. I'm just glad that I claimed it before anyone else could.Pretty satisfied with the thesis; I'll probably put it up after some celebratory drinking.

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You know that episode of the Simpsons where Homer repeatedly mistakes much smaller mountains for the Murderhorn?That's how I feel about both the blogosphere and blogosphere studies: it seems like every day, I find some nook that I've missed. The former problem doesn't bother me, because the hope is that eventually sites I like will link to other sites I'll like.For blogosphere studies, on the

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One of my original thesis ideas. The answer is of course yes-and-no. I think blog platforms like LiveJournal certainly have their own communities with their own communal norms, but I don't get that impression from platforms like MoveableType, whose users seem to think on the blogosphere-as-a-whole level.Many theorists have devoted their time to studying the interaction between blogger and

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My advisor drew an exclamation point next to my first and only use of the verb-form of "blog" in my paper, which brought to mind an important if little-noted fact:The noun "blog" is a nominalization.If we believe Peter Merholz's account of the coinage of "blog," it came from his splitting "weblog" into "we blog." Maybe he (or others) have a different analysis, but it seems to me like "we" is the

Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17416532968964381567noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18176271.post-1145860780021153282006-04-24T01:01:00.000-05:002006-05-13T15:14:14.920-05:00

So it turns out Jose van Dijck is not a man. I'm surprised I even made that assumption, when most weblog scholarship seems to be written by women.But in any case: apologies. Not a mistake a copy editor should make, no matter what the first name.My first draft is still getting its going over, so in the meantime I've been reading Genette's Narrative Discourse and trying to collect (published and/or

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The next journalist who uses the phrase "Internet blog" will be summarily executed.So I finished the first draft around midnight, though I ended up spending another hour putting together the bibliography. I'm waaaay too lazy to reformat everything for my blog right now, but here's the Word file:Thesis first draft

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Here are the paragraphs on the blog that I added to my thesis. This was meant to be one paragraph, but, well, it needed to be much longer before I was satisfied with it. It's now a section after the intro called "the blog." All footnotes that are hyperlinks have been changed to off-site links. There are some sources I'd like to consult — Nils had to do something like this too, apparently — but

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Writing the "Blogs 101" section of my thesis, I followed the paragraph on "essential features" with one on "common misconceptions" — features often thought to be essential that really aren't.And of course that immediately brought to mind a paragraph from Blood's "Hammer, Nail: How Blogging Software Reshaped the Online Community" which offered an example too good not to quote:Blogger really was

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So after meeting yesterday with my advisor, who gave me a lot of feedback on those first 15 pages, I've realized that — for grade-related reason — I'm going to have to write my paper for an audience more like him.Instead of pitching it toward people who've read a bit of Blood, spend a fair bit of time in the blogosphere, and have seen any of the many blog surveys (Perseus, Herring, and the like).

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Qualifications: not finished, behind in fact, my advisor hasn't read it, my group hasn't workshopped much of it. Footnotes were a bit of a pain, so I've changed any applicable ones to links and left out others. I'm especially embarassed by the last section, which notices the right things but has little to no good analysis.In short: this is my baby, but it's an ugly baby. So constructive criticism

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Working on the first 20 pages of my thesis. Which, yes Virginia, you will get to see either tomorrow or late tonight.I wish I hadn't learned all that stuff about "characters" and "actions" last week, though. Because I'm haphazardly rewriting every sentence now.

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Can't possibly finish these pages before I go. So nuts to that, I guess.

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Ever since I read "How do diaries end?" I've been thinking about the unique way in which weblogs can be permanent, public, and yet never finished. Tequila Mockingbird can leave her site for months and there's still the expectation (perhaps barely noticed, if you're using RSS) of new updates. Doubly so in her case, since we know she has an executor who'll update the site if she dies.Some blogs do

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Working on my first 15 pages or so, which I'll post before I leave. In the meantime, because it's hilarious, I'd like to note that my workshop briefly degenerated into Mimi-bashing this Friday.But Mimi-bashing that opened up some potentially very productive theoretical approaches. So, score.Also, my advisor buttonholed me after class and, with a distasteful look on his face, said "I've been

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