Stigmergic systems - summary of theory

Stigmergy. I like it already. Kidding aside, its about collaboration. Stigmergic systems - summary of theory

Fafner awaits the blog maven.

Fafner awaits the blog maven.
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Casa Iverson. Summer office and blog central.

technology and the social � Blog Archive � Blogger Motivations: Power Pull and Positive Feedback

I haven't read the paper yet, but I will before we return from summer fun. The student who wrote it won a prize from the Internet Research group. technology and the social :Blog Archive: Blogger Motivations: Power Pull and Positive Feedback

The journalism department is moving, so I feel like I have no place to hang on campus. I am making the most of it, however, and here you can see my "Summer Office."

technology and the social:Blog Archive :What is a wiki good for? an explanation for teachers

Hi blogoteers. Here is an interesting blog entry about what wikis are good for. This blogger recently won an award for her research on blogs and college students. I will probably link to that too. technology and the social %uFFFD Blog Archive %uFFFD What is a wiki good for? an explanation for teachers

Collaborative Scholarship via blogs

The "Computers and Writing" community, a sub-set of Rhetoric/Composition scholarship, has a phalanx of active bloggers who are just finishing a "carnival" of blogging about a particular article. See some of the posts here, here, and here.

This seems to be a distinctly different activity than the one we're engaged in here--collaborative single-site authorship. Each author assumes others are reading some of the carnival but presumably no-one reads it all. Hmmm.

Ohmynews International Citizen Forum--Seoul, June 2005

What I did over the first part of my vacation and why I haven't been diligent about posting and adding to this group blog.

I will be in South Korea for a few days at a forum on "citizen journalism" so I will have lots to report back. If I can, I will post some photos via flickr.com. See you when I return.

american dialogues: student blogs

Sharon, and everyone,
Here is the way one teacher sets up to incorporate student blogs for a class. american dialogues: student blogs

But, look closely, and you will see that many of students did not blog, or if they blogged for awhile, they stopped.

Maybe a question for us academics is, how long do you have to blog in order to get a benefit from the activity?

Why Blogs Are Beating Out Ezines

Why Blogs Are Beating Out Ezines And Matter So Much to Your Platform: "We're no longer happy with passive activities. Maybe as a culture we've grown completely sick of sitting around doing nothing ... all those hours of reality TV? We've now begun to expect to participate in our entertainment, even when it comes to reading websites. So blogs -- which allow comments from readers -- are the perfect medium. "

Research

As I begin to think about our talk for the faculty retreat in August, I hope to do a little reading about blogs and blogging from a variety of fronts. Here's something I've been meaning to look at for a while: it's a peer-reviewed "book" on blogging:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/

Does anyone have other suggestions for places to look?

Here is some rough work on a typology of blogs

Post from my other blog where I try and categorize blogs. It might be one thing to think about.

Welcome blogoteers.

We have added Brendan Riley from the English Department to our group. He has a slick looking blog called The Daily Sextant and he seems to fit with our group. Here is some biographical information about him:

I am a member of the English Department faculty at Columbia College Chicago. Columbia College provides a liberal arts-based education for students interested in careers in the performing and media arts. I teach Composition and New Media classes at Columbia, and look forward to participating in the Cultural Studies program.

I earned my PhD in English from the University of Florida in 2004, where I studied Film and Media Studies as well as Rhetoric and Composition. My research interests include: Rhetoric and Composition theory, particularly work in the sub-field of Computers & Writing; New Media studies; Grammatology (the study of the history of writing); and Film and Media Studies. My work has appeared in Kairos and Computers and Composition Online, among others. I also have some experience in programming web applications. For example, my web-based gradebook program is in use by several instructors in the English Department at the University of Florida.

Brendan our other blogoteers are Sharon Ross from the Television Department and Russell Porter, documentary filmaker and Columbia College Chicago teacher.