sábado, 10 de mayo de 2008

Blogging Thougths: Personal publication as an online research tool

Artículo escrito por Torill Mortensen y Jill Walker en 2002
Ponencia presentada en Skikt-researchers' conference. Researching ICTs in Context. InterMedia Report.
Artículo en inglés

Once upon a time, weblogs were automatically collated overviews of data about visitors to a web server. That's changed. Nowadays the texts called weblogs are definitely not written by a computer. Weblogs today are subjective annotations to the web rather than statistics about it.
Weblogs, or blogs as they are affectionately termed, are frequently updated websites, usually personal, with commentary and links. Link lists are as old as home pages, but a blog is far from a static link list or home page. A blog consists of many relatively short posts, usually time-stamped, and organised in reverse chronology so that a reader will always see the most recent post first. The first weblogs were seen as filters to the Internet; interesting links to sites the reader might not have seen, often with commentary from the blogger.

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María Cecilia Fonseca Sardi dijo...

"our weblogs became tools with which to think about our research, its values, connections and links to ther aspects of the world. They altered the way in we approached online ommunication, and have influenced the writing of both dissertations. This is the motivation for this article: a need to look at what weblogs do to our academic thinking." p. 251