I just spotted an article on blogging in GWSAE’s Executive Update. This is the first mention of weblogs in the association trade press that I’m aware of.
It is very brief and makes a few points that I could quible with, however, I’m very excited that the topic has been picked-up by the trades. No mention of the knowledge angle yet but that will come.
I added a search function to the weblog today. I wrote a PHP script that accesses the blog entries in the MT MySQL database and then display the matches. It is not real fancy and doesn’t provide permanent links (which are difficult to create due to the database structure) but it’s good enough for me! I’ll probably continue to tinker with it.
Phil Wolff’s klogging 101 slides.
Halley’s Comment has posted a transcription of an interview with Chris Locke on NPR about weblogs. (Found via JOHO.)
Found a couple of interesting, new-to-me, weblogs this morning:
Column Two by James Robertson. The blog is primarily about KM and Content Management. Australia seems to be a real hotbed for this kind of stuff.
Bloug by Lou Rosenfeld of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web fame. He writes about IA, oddly enough. He also flags any narcissisitic posts with a hot dog.
Speaking of narcissism, I found Column Two by following a referral link back to his site. I’m addicted to parsing my referral logs. C2 then led me to Bloug.
From Paul Holbrook’s Radio Weblog:
Down the rabbit hole of blogging …
Sometimes following other people’s blogs is like talking to someone who won’t shut up: you ask one question, and you’re in for a 15 minute answer. Well, it’s a little like that, except it’s not: it’s a lot more interesting. Case in point: I pulled a little piece out of my news aggregator this morning on a k-log pilot experiment, and many hours later, I’m left with a pile on interesting pages scattered around my screen that I’m trying to make sense of. (I can’t even remember where I found the reference to the k-log item; it’s already gone from my aggregator.)
I got turned on to the whole weblog/klog thing after a few experiences like the above. Knowing that I helped someone else tumble down a rabbit hole is very gratifying.
Alice down the rabbit-hole is a great analogy for a multi-hour klog clicking session:
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE’, but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
High Context. Does it show up in the TrackBack list?
Testing out a ping on TrackBack Development: Example of TrackBack threading.
Trackback does enable category-based auto pings according to the documentation:
You can use TrackBack for more than just communication on particular entries, however. You can also associate TrackBack pings URLs with categories in your blog. Whenever you post an entry to that category, the URLs you have associated will automatically be notified of your post. This allows remote sites to keep a repository of references to posts all around the web.
Excellent.
Just yesterday Glen and I were talking about what balance to strike between multi-author weblogs and individual weblogs on our intranet. I think that eventually we would evolve our blogs on the intranet to single-author but enable some way to port or otherwise indicate certain of their posts for diffferent teams the writer might be on. We use MovableType and had not yet come up with an elegant way to do this that still met our needs (it is partially a taxonomy challenge, of course!).
The new MT TrackBack might fit the bill:
Multiple “authors” without author accounts
Say you want to have your readers contribute to your blog, but do not want to add them as an author; either because you want to limit the number of authors or you don’t want the work of having to add new people each time someone wants to post something interesting. Or, you may not want their posts to “weigh” as much as your official set of multiple authors.
With TrackBack, you can set up a section of your site to receive pings.
Kristine, one of our beta-testers, used her site, The Red Kitchen, as an example:
“If I had a category named ‘Red Kitchen Guests’ and allowed pings to it… then anyone with an MT blog could post a recipe on their page and ping my guest category. Then it could automatically list a ping link and excerpt on the Guest category page.”
With this we could set up team weblogs that just gather TalkBack pings from team members who are writing klog entries. Ideally I would like for individual writers to set one or more of their categories to auto-ping relevant team klogs when a new entry of that category is posted. I’m not sure that TalkBack supports category auto-pinging right now but maybe we could do it somehow via category templates.
I’m looking forward to experimenting with this.
C. David Gammel, CAE 