Heather Havrilesky who used to write entertainingly for the late lamented suck has her own weblog now and recently found out that undergrads at the University of Texas are studying weblogs including her own. She waxes amusing about this…
If you are interested in serious sociological studies of home page creation they appear to be surprisingly thin on the ground. I just read an interesting overview in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication and found a good site from Nottingham Trent University that references other sites about identity and web pages – largely but not exclusively focusing on gender issues.
I have yet to come across many academic papers specifically about weblogs but doubtless they will be arriving soon. I was interviewed a while back by Dr Donald Matheson who is studying weblogs and I will link to the results of the research I was included in when it becomes available.6102i ringtonesproduct farrington a8310 nokia free ringtonefree 6800 ringtone polyphonic nokiaringtones alcatel tones mradd ringtones an iphone toringtone adult ozzy8350 ringtones Map
I find it interesting that I haven’t even heard of blogs until I read an article about it on my handheld regarding the merger between them and Google a couple days ago. Hmm… also, I didn’t hear about the threedegrees thing either… I have alot to learn about this ‘Internet’ thing.
And yet it appears blogs have been around for quite some time. Not very savvy, am I?
I feel myself compelled to do more research and create my own… any suggestions?
Comment by kapp — 21 February 2003 @ 4:46 am
Go to blogger.com, register, then go to blogspot.com, register there, and soon you will have a weblog – absolutely free. Other solutions are available (like Moveable Type, which I use) but they tend to require you to install something on a web server somewhere etc. Blogger is just point and click.
Comment by David Brake — 21 February 2003 @ 11:46 am
Research Papers will be produced for the blogtalk-conference. It will be interesting to see how scientific/useful/bizarre/etcetc they will be.
Comment by Martin Roell — 23 February 2003 @ 11:06 pm