ASIST SIG Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting

Internet Week article on Wikis versus blogs

Wikis versus blogs from Internet Week http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331

via Nancy G. Faget

Author in Washington, DC

I've been working in federal libraries for six years now.  As a participant in wikis, I want to run one (hopefully using purple numbers) to gain experience and be able to teach others.  Wikis can be easily searched, function well facilitating collaboration, and require minimum investment.  In my estimation, this will be the tool of choice for communities of practice in the future. 

I would love to hear your thoughts on how we might categorize this blog.  It doesn't look too difficult to achieve.  Want to start with the easy categories?  All about blogs/wikis/podcasting/ASIST?  http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/news/2003/09/using_categorie.html#more

Wikimania Proceeding available online

If you are interested in Wiki's this is a much check it out for your to do list...<a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05">Proceedings of Wikimania 2005, 1st International Wikimedia Conference</a>.

Current blogsphere stats from David Sifry

David Sifry, aka founder and CEO of Technorati, has been posting an interesting set of information showing current blogosphere stats on his blog Sifry's Alerts.  Check out the following (reverse chron order):

• State of the Blogosphere August 2005 Part 5: The A-List and the Long Tail
• State of the Blogosphere August 2005 Part 4: Spam and Fake Blogs
• State of the Blogosphere, August 2005 Part 3: Tags and Tagging
• State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 2: Posting Volume
• State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth

I'll add to the list if more posts from him are forthcoming.

Another greeting from Indiana

It looks like Lois and I independently volunteered to write to the SIG-BWP blog as we share the passion for blogs and blogging. My name is Inna Kouper. I am a third-year doctoral student at the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. As I haven't defined a topic of my dissertation yet, I am exploring various areas of Internet research such as blogs / journals and virtual communities, online media and public discourse, gender and social change. Even though my interests are diverse and interdisciplinary, they converge in my work as a member of the Blog Research on Genre (BROG) project. As a group of now 10 collaborators led by Susan Herring we have been studying various characteristics of blogs and blogosphere.

I have two blogs (one blog and one journal to be precise). Working notes is a research blog, a place where I reflect on various issues related to my academic interests. A journal Kartoteka is in Russian, which is my native language. It is a more informal place where I track what is new and interesting on Russian Internet. Recently I also started contributing to Russian Wikipedia.

I look forward to posting to this blog and reading it. I am sure this blog will be a good experience for its authors and a great resource for the readers.

Greetings from Indiana

Hi I’m Lois Ann Scheidt.  I am a doctoral student at Indiana University (IU) where I study with Susan Herring and John Paolillo.  My research focuses on adolescent use of online technologies and computer-mediated communication.  Under the former category I am a founding member of the Blog Research on Genre (BROG) Project at the School of Library and Information Science at IU.

I have been writing Professional-Lurker blog since December 2003.  The blog focuses on blog research, graduate school, and the life of a faculty fellow.  I try to add posts about interesting things that catch my eyes…even if they don’t neatly fit into these categories.  Professional-Lurker blog was the recipient of Best Research Based Blog High Esteem ranking in the 2004 EduBlog Awards.

I am happy to begin posting here at ASIST SIG Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting and look forward to getting to know both my co-authors and the blogs readers.

Another SIG-BWP author

I am delighted to have an opportunity to contribute to this weblog during the months that I volunteered. My name is Heather Ebey. I am working on the last year—I hope—towards an MLIS at San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science. I work full time at UC, San Diego as a Unix system administrator. About a year ago, I started Librarian Way to share links, opinions, and summaries of a few workshops I attended. I started out using Movable Type software, but I recently switched to WordPress.

At UCSD, I work with MediaWiki software and use it to document Sun Solaris 10 procedures. I am expecting to learn a lot about podcasting through this blog. I am quite impressed by Garrick's background and expertise in this arena.

By the way, reduced-rate registration is open until September 8, 2005 for the 2005 Wiki Symposium, which is being held as part of the 20th annual OOPSLA '05, San Diego during the period 0ctober 16-20, 2005.

The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, implementers, and users for the first time. The goal of the symposium is to find a voice for the community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions.

Hi, Garrick Van Buren here.

On behalf of the 7 authors behind this blog, welcome.

About a year ago, I founded Working Pathways, a professional services firm focused on the benefits of social software in the workplace. Things like blogs, wikis, podcasts. The sorts of things Michael set up this blog to talk about. I've also helped places like Target and Orbitz.com improve their customer experience with my information architecture and usability expertise.

The earliest weblog post I can still find is dated Oct 2000. Since then, I've regularly posted at Working Pathways' Work Better Weblog, MNteractive.com, and GarrickVanBuren.com. In the fall of 2004, I started producing the First Crack podcast.

All that being said, this is my first experience with TypePad. I'm more familiar with WordPress - and I've written a handful of plugins for that system. Including one to automate the creation of iTunes-compatible RSS feeds.