excellent entry point to discussion on blogging the self, from Jill.

Dust off your semiotic analysis hats and take a look at these images of bloggers.

An interesting article nteresting on two counts: the topic amd thesis he's taking (bloggers want to be journos and journos want to be bloggers), and how he's presenting his preparation: crots with commentary that constellate into multiple patterns. Nice.

What it says on the tin. A bang on bloggy essay (repurposing and demonstration for you en3177 people) on interconnectedness, findability, addressability, and differences between transactional systems and social systems.

Nifty thesis:" "All blogs, for Himmer, are in some sense literary, because of the nature of their readers’ interactions with them. ... Such a claim begins to suggest that the reasons we read blogs may be slightly different than we have often imagined; through this understanding, blogs offer not simply a voyeuristic peek into someone else’s life — though, obviously, that numbers among their pleasures, too — but they also offer a form of writing that engages the reader by requiring her not simply to consume the content presented but also, in some sense, to produce that content, to complete what is present through a knowledge of what is past, an exploration of the ways that that present is situated, and a commitment to return in the future."

Overview of recent studies and commentary on affects and position of online and extra-curricular writing. Ranges from "stylistically impoverished," to Yancey: "If we don't invite students to figure out the lessons they've learned from that writing outside of school and bring those inside of school, what will happen is only the very bright students" will do it themselves, Ms. Yancey says. "It's the rest of the population that we're worried about."

A couple reflective blogging exercises.

Advice for EN3177. Get a plan. Get a market. Get a purpose.

Optimistic photo- and voice essay on how to see.

We've turned the corner on scholarly blogging. Next you know, Time will cover it. Some valuable links in this short post. "If scholars are to be truly evaluated on their impact to the field, a blog that fosters healthy debate and discussion, and ideally advances ideas or problems within the field, is a strong indicator of immediate impact. "

About evaluating blog posts. Offers a rubric, similar to mine on weblogs and wikis, as well as a mid-term reflective post, again similar to my mid-term reflection.

good general advice for GAs and newbies

A BOOK CROWDSOURCED IN ONE WEEK MAY 21-28, 2010. A little thin. More like an academic magazine than a multigraph.

TechCrunch enacting blogging position for addressing scam.

Blogging is less popular among teens than it has been, with social networking sites rising. That can make blogging all the more useful in teaching as it becomes further differentiated as a medium from other media.

University of Reading. "In an environment where there are many ways to publish material quickly and easily, such as social networking sites ... and all manner of other ways of expressing yourself on the web, people can find that they have their 'web presence' spread across multiple sites. What's more, other people might post something about you without you knowing about it - and it might be done quite innocently.

We are developing a number of short exercises and learning materials to help people think about what sorts of issues there are about DI."

* It becomes the next big thing and the place where the cool kids hang out
* People begin manipulating the signal to their benefit, thereby destroying the quality of the signal.

5) Either the technology adapts, or people adapt and social conventions adapt, or the “thing” takes a massive nosedive in importance.

A defense of academic blogging

One of the first of doubtless many posts on the rev of the White House web site and new blog. Solid observations about the design and its social/political significance.

These bloggers don't see themselves as journalists and don't see themselves as having a 'role'.

Yet, their readerships rival those of many newspapers and they make their livings directly or indirectly from online publications.

Some techniques based on the characteristics of Twitter and email: spontaneity and impulsiveness.

A real-time blog feedback loop turns an audience hostile and dynamites an ethos: within minutes of his posting the story, someone in Florida emailed him a link to a story about Naccio cashing $200 in stock even as his company stock prices dropped. Gillmor posted that link in his next post, and almost instantly, the audience began to turn hostile against Naccio."

Although generally dismissed by school administrators as "faculty bathroom graffiti," teacher blogs, including those that are written anonymously, are becoming essential reading for anyone who wants to look beyond standardized test score reports to see wh

I, for one, don't really mind being open online. I think that having a blog is one of the best ways of managing your personal brand and controlling your reputation. A blog allows you to write your side of the story -- always. If there was a picture that was posted or comment that was made about you that you didn't approve of or that you want to explain... your blog is the place to do it.

UW Madison. I seek to provide teachers with a systematic survey of the anecdotal information out there on blogs (no formal studies have been published on blogs in teaching, to my knowledge) so that they can implement them in their own teaching.

Statement from the CCCC Blogging / Social Software SIG. Some general principles and resources.

EFF advice on maintaining control in blogging.

Cory Doctorow, 05/31/2002. Older piece but good for consideration of storing and working with information

More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report.

Brief polemic on online publishing - It is impossible to be pro-book and anti-revolution -- the printed word is revolution incarnate,

The New York Times has certainly embraced blogging, but it was striking to see in this post from The Lede just how much they’ve embraced link journalism:

Video + Microblogging = Rich User Experience A news piece announcing use of Seesmic with twitter clients

"A few prominent bloggers have, of late, been talking about the move away from the blogosphere. " The blog doesn't have monopoly on social attention.

A perenial, this time frm the N Yorker. Your bio in 6 words on a nametag, twitter, gravatar

When I write for school or for publication, I construct a faceless, mass audience. ... When writing for a market, the audience is already formed. Blogging audiences seem to work the other way around: you write in your own strange, crooked way, and then p

Shawn gets in close again and persuades me that MarsEdit is worth another look. Both a good review and a solid example of what approaching a review with a blog is about: closer than any other publication

From Dec 2006. News from on the ground can be uncensored and immediate.

How to generate additional topics.

from 2006. The numbers might be shifting a little as social networking becomes more pervasive, or as we widen our senses of what it is to "contribute" and expand the means.

from Problogger.net. A *very* extensive posting worth returning to.

Books -- illustrations - Analogue print in digital

RU Sirius starts with Clay Shirky on the spread of literacy, and a string of men (no women represented here) weigh in. The discussion's open.

Marketing/Promotional blog kept by a MnSCU summer intern

Microblogging and lifecasting: not one to one but many to many.

Good advice and exercises for freelancers. The number of comments suggest ProBlogger has a regular following.

"network literacy and how blogging is not simply keeping an electronic journal, it's distributed and collaborative; it's learning to think and write with the network. I'll also talk a bit about the ethics of insisting students blog in public."

These really are essential readings for practical bloggers: a workshop in a link list.

Mixing paper and screen. Everyone's gettng organized these days.

Outsource your network. Auntie Bee reports that social network ghosts can earn £1,000 a month.

The upberrule is Turn blogging into one-way, edited online version of print. From May 2006.

Tony Long is copy chief at Wired News. Tony Long's brief consideration of _Cult of the Ameteur_ aka: in defense of professionalism

Using writing - and by writing we mean posting - to create ethos.

Well, yeah. Mostly a reiteration of _Naked Converations_ in brief form.

Alex King's useful and well-designed add ons for WP. Really nice stuff,

Vlogging, like blogging, connects people, and relies on a (rhetorical construction of) authenticity: "If you could name a core value on YouTube, it's authenticity," says Mr. Wesch.

18th ACM conference, Manchester, UK. Hypertext and Society thread is of special interest.

Business Week makes a case for businesses to gete into blogging. Takes a condescending self-righteous attitude towards bloggers in general

Report on using blogs in pro dev - action research, etc

thorough

opening article / advice for a special issue of Reconstruction on blogging