Clay Shirky is "guestblogging" on the side bar of boing boing this week, and starts out with this great line:
I'm obsessed with social software these days. In the Before Time (<=1994), the standard internet tools like usenet and mailing lists were inherently social, but on most of the Web, the height of interaction was one-click ordering. So I'm thrilled whenever I see anything actually making real conversation possible. Particularly interesting is the way the blogosphere is becoming an inside-out usenet, with the content centralized and the namespace distributed, instead of the other way around.
I had forgotten what a great resource A List Apart was. With a new quarter beginning soon--one in which I'll be teaching a section of XML for the Web, and one of Web Design & Implementation--it's good I rediscovered it.
A few articles that will be immediately useful--CSS Beyond the Browser: Going to Print, Practical CSS, and Using XML.
The problem with teaching these kinds of technologies isn't finding material--it's finding the good material. This goes on my "short list."
The only good thing about being sick is that it gives me carte blanche to lie on the couch and blogsurf.
Was playing around on Allconsuming, which led me to Jill Walker's blog. She's working on her doctorate at the University of Bergen (Norway), and has some great papers on her site related to blogging. Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool is good. Even better is a paper she presented at the June 2002 ACM Hypertext conference, called Links and Power: The Political Economy of Linking on the Web. The abstract for the latter is short and sweet:
Search engines like Google interpret links to a web page as objective, peer-endorsed and machine-readable signs of value. Links have become the currency of the Web. With this economic value they also have power, affecting accessibility and knowledge on the Web.
Jill also has a link to a post on "nomadic writing" written by her friend (and "blog cluster" neighbor) Adrian Miles.
My blogroll is taking over my life.
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