Weblog research links. Lilia is looking for links on weblog research of the academically endorsed variety. While most of the good writing on weblogs is to be found on the web itself rather than in academic publications, more traditional-looking references can come in handy to those in an academic environment. Here are a couple pointers of mine. (Most are taken out of my blogroll on the left.)

Websites

• Weblog Kitchen -Weblog Books, Who's Who
• Blogresearch - group blog.
• Blogonblog
• Kairosnews
• PhDweblogs
• EduBlogging Network

People

Stephen Downes, Mark Bernstein, Jill Walker, Torill Mortensen, Cameron Marlow, Jim McGee, Sebastian Fiedler, Sébastien Paquet, Spike Hall, Alex Halavais, Nurul Asyikin, George Siemens, Marysia Milonas, Martin Terre Blanche, Elizabeth Lane Lawley, many BlogTalk attendees.

Academic documents (theses, articles)

• Torill Mortensen and Jill Walker's Blogging Thoughts
  
• My paper at the 3rd International Workshop on (Virtual) Community Informatics
• My Ph.D. thesis
• Nurul's thesis (intro, thesis)
  
• The BlogTalk papers

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[Seb's Open Research]

A formula for blogging in organizations.

I just learned about another SQL Server weblog community: SQL Team weblogs. Running on Scott Watermasysk's .TEXT. By the way, the SQL Team website has tons of info on SQL Server.

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

I was going to point to this as a good example of the benefits you obtain when you lower the barriers to expression. And it is. But it also contains some interesting material on knowledge work from a slightly different point of view than I've taken before. So I've also subscribed to their RSS feed (SQL Team Weblog RSS feed).

One of the benefits you get when you lower the barriers to expression and lower the barriers to attention by providing RSS feeds is that the abstract notions of self-organizing networks get a set of operational tools. This is what is getting us excited about the potential for these new tools inside and across organizations.

Blogging in organizations = lowering the barriers to expression + lowering the barriers to attention. That's a formula that warrants some thought. Moreover, it's a formula that would likely never have occurred to me without living inside the phenomenon.

[McGee's Musings]