ASIST SIG Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting

wikiwyg

Many2many blog has a post about wikiwyg - a piece of code that allows to edit ("wikify") ANY html, not only blogs. "I didn't try it myself but it sounded exciting."

via Inna Kouper

Or is what we want a Bliki

"A Bliki (also known as a WikiLog, Wog, WikiWeblog, Wikiblog, or Bloki), is a blog with wiki support. This means that after (or before) an article is posted to the blog, it can be edited, either by anyone or by some group of authorized users. This combination of the two Internet concepts was conceived with the purpose of making the popular blogging experience more interactive. Another possible effect (especially for news blogs) is the improvement of the quality and accuracy of the articles posted by giving more people the ability to edit them. However, trolling may become a problem in such systems.

The main advantage of combining the two concepts, however, is in leveraging the utility of wikis at making connections between ideas; this effectively turns blog posts into proper wiki articles, but maintains the former's immediate nature. Thus, a bliki can evolve as a whole over time, and past information is not merely jettisoned into the aether and lost in the shuffle.

Many wiki engines are capable of providing an RSS feed, so that users can subscribe to receive notifications of updates and changes. However, a content management system with an RSS feed is not necessarily a blog; so a wiki engine with RSS support is not necessarily a bliki. Blikis look more like a blog than wikis, typically showing reverse-chronological order, date-labelled, entries."  Courtesy of the Wikipedia

PodcastCon UK 2005

PodcastCon UK 2005 is the first conference in Europe dedicated to podcasting. The conference will include an exciting combination of presentations, practical sessions and debate on all aspects of
podcasting as it moves into its second year.

BlogOn 2005 Social Media Summit

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Via Inna Kouper

Has blogging hit the third generation of evoluation?

Duncan at The Blog Herald has an interesting post where he posits that blogging has entered it's third generations.  His analysis is based on Technorati and Feedster standing.  The post is a good read and I will be thinking it through today for sure.

Blogging has essentially developed in waves or generations, each of which was notable for the backgrounds of the majority of people entering the blogosphere at each point.

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3G: the consumer bloggers (2005+)

You know I chuckle when I see articles discussing whether blogging has gone mainstream or not because its as though the people writing such nonsense must be so insular as to not see a thing that's going on around them, because blogging has gone mainstream, and 3G bloggers are flooding into the blogosphere at the rate of millions per week. This generation of bloggers is different to the past two generation of bloggers because the geek companionship of the 1st generation and the extroversion that drove the 2nd generation has been replaced by a sense of normality. Most new bloggers blog because they can, because others are, and because to many people (perhaps more so amongst younger people, and in particular amongst teens) having a blog is now regarded as a normal behaviour, just like having an email address and mobile phone are normal as well. For me the dawning of the consumer generation was MSN Spaces, because (perhaps much to the delight, or even credit of Mike Torres) Spaces works, and despite the initial limitations on launch I'd noted at the time Microsoft once again displayed an amazing ability to get inside the head of the average person and deliver a product they would use.

TypePad now supports Podcasts

jkOnTheRun has brought to my attention that TypePad now supports podcasting:

TypePad bloggers who have been itching to get into Podcasting but didn’t want to get into a complicated distribution setting can now distribute them directly in TypePad.  This added feature is part of a slew of functionality recently added including Notes TypeLists and XML feed handling.  Way to keep improving, Six Apart!

RSS feed reading study

<p>
    <a href="http://photos30.flickr.com/35303558_201a150f7c_m.jpg"><img hspace="5" src="http://photos30.flickr.com/35303558_201a150f7c_m.jpg" align="right"/></a>The <a href="http://www.sumofmyparts.com/blog/?p=588">Sum of My Parts</a> blog has&#160;a teaser for her upcoming&#160;<a href="http://www.bloggforum.se/">Bloggforum 2.0</a> paper on RSS reading including the graphic at the right.&#160; &#160;
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<blockquote>i just finished compiling the data from the survey and was a bit surprised to see that the number of people who report their reading behavior changed by the adoption of RSS is still quite low. Most reported that they have just begun to use aggregators and that it has caused an increase in the number they read with an increase in scanning and a decrease in in-depth reading. One even mentions reading feeds on his mobile.
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Posting to Blogger blogs from within Word

Blogger has a new add-in that allows you to update a Blogger blog from within Microsoft Word.  This may make it easier for some bloggers to post, leading to more frequent updates. 

Of course should Microsoft see fit to add the feature to Word directly then like the recent addition of podcast downloading to iTunes the change could propel serious growth in blogging through the addition of new blogs as well as more frequent posting to existing Blogger blogs.

Now you can use Blogger right within Microsoft® Word. Just download and install the Blogger for Word add-in and a Blogger toolbar will be added to Word allowing you to:

• Publish to your blog
• Save drafts
• Edit posts

Google wikis

Research Buzz is talking about Google wikis
http://www.researchbuzz.org/speaking_of_google_wikis.shtml

via Nancy G. Faget

Links to LIS blogs

Bibliographic Center for Research brings us some links to LIS blogs
http://www.bcr.org/publications/afl/2005/august/internet.html

via Nancy G. Faget