Defined
Cosmic
"We are the nodes, actively filtering and retransmitting knowledge....
We're in the process of creating a planetary nervous system."
–Jon Udell from The Network is the Blog
Technical
"A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser."
–Dave Winer, from What makes a weblog a weblog?(Weblogs at Harvard Law)
- personal voice
- chronological posts
- time stamp
- permalinks
- syndication
- archives
- comments
- calendar
- categories
- pings
- trackback
- automatic notification
- css templates
- rankings
- team capability
Finding examples
Blogrolls
Blogspot "Next Blog" buttons
Technorati
Weblog Directory
Delicious
Popular blog engines
Fee-based
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CITES DS Community Server
Pilot for blog and forum service
(service codes)
Freebies
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Live Journal (upgraded service available)
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Blogger (upgraded service available)
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Set up free blogspot blog using blogger.com
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Post to your own server from blogger.com using FTP / SFTP
Comparisons
Comments engines
Applications
Personal
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Legal issues
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Policies
Educational
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UIUC Physics Blog
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Robert O'Toole: Why blogging should be included (Warwick University)
Updates for short-term projects
Searchable knowledge-management repository
Often the result of a short-term project-update blogs (see Gilbane Reports whitepaper)
Simple publishing system
Easy for non-technical users to post to your site with little training investment
Automatic RSS built in
Using RSS:
Example: http://software.cites.uiuc.edu,
fed from http://ds-software.blogspot.com/
using script generator: http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/
More
Blog Conferences
Research on Blogs
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