http://www.netdynam.org/2009/07/12/blogs-their-popularity-lack-thereof-community-usefulness/ A Web 2.0 outgrowth of our study of group dynamics on the Internet Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:37:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.netdynam.org/2009/07/12/blogs-their-popularity-lack-thereof-community-usefulness/#comment-470 hoon Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:12:37 +0000 http://www.netdynam.org/?p=1252#comment-470 eldon, are you asking me to assemble a data set specified to a format useful to you, rather than assemble a data set yourself by legging out the hours yourself? Kinda like a grad student or intern? This strikes me as being interested in how blogs might be classified, but not too interested in actually visiting blogs per say. Which is okay, yet, the specific need for data does seem to require somebody's time. I assume a private list equivalent blog would be one that qualifies members via some version of credentialing. The ND2.0 blog has implemented the minimal barrier: a commenter has to negotiate a captcha. As a blog user, I don't usually comment, so I'd be in the class of users who doesn't afford themselves the opportunity to join in. If you go to Technorati's directory, the subject of many of the blogs it indexes is revealed.
Kinda like a grad student or intern?

This strikes me as being interested in how blogs might be classified, but not too interested in actually visiting blogs per say. Which is okay, yet, the specific need for data does seem to require somebody’s time.

I assume a private list equivalent blog would be one that qualifies members via some version of credentialing.

The ND2.0 blog has implemented the minimal barrier: a commenter has to negotiate a captcha.

As a blog user, I don’t usually comment, so I’d be in the class of users who doesn’t afford themselves the opportunity to join in.

If you go to Technorati’s directory, the subject of many of the blogs it indexes is revealed.]]> http://www.netdynam.org/2009/07/12/blogs-their-popularity-lack-thereof-community-usefulness/#comment-468 eldon Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:24:42 +0000 http://www.netdynam.org/?p=1252#comment-468 the names of ghe blogs stephen visits mean little to me - unless i go there myself of course, but i'd like a gloss of the type of blog each is, categorised by whatever set of criteria you think works for grouping blogs together using constellations of these criteria. the ultimate aim being to reduce a long list of blogs to a shorter list of blog types. something like diigo - but in that case, each site has a summary attached. this would be a summary of affordances and functions, with a list of blogs under each perhaps. what i am proposing is a set of say, [meta]functions which blogs are seen to serve, as well as a wider set of non-definitive criteria (at a different logical leval of analysis) which can be used to group blogs together. in the past email lists were grouped in a similar way as for example: non/moderated open/closed private/public academic/social, etc
the ultimate aim being to reduce a long list of blogs to a shorter list of blog types.

something like diigo – but in that case, each site has a summary attached.
this would be a summary of affordances and functions, with a list of blogs under each perhaps.

what i am proposing is a set of say, [meta]functions which blogs are seen to serve, as well as a wider set of non-definitive criteria (at a different logical leval of analysis) which can be used to group blogs together.

in the past email lists were grouped in a similar way as for example:
non/moderated
open/closed
private/public
academic/social,
etc]]>