Wednesday, 1 January 2003

Weblogging and Personal Publishing How useful are weblogs for sharing knowledge? "BlogStreet is hosting Sébastien Paquet's survey on the usefulness of weblogs and wikis for sharing knowledge. Please go here to fill in the short multiple-choice questionnaires." [The FuzzyBlog!] I for one would be interested in the outcome of this survey. Tutorial on using Radio Userland to build weblogs. For those who are new to weblogging and want to know how it is done, this is a great introduction. Understanding Weblogs. You read 'em all the time, but what makes a weblog a weblog? And how can you quickly jump in and start publishing your own? Wei Meng Lee shows you the blogging ropes. [O'Reilly Network Articles] [Richard Gayle] Personal Knowledge Publishing. If you have done Sébastien Paquet's survey, you might also want to read about his article "Personal Knowledge Publishing and its uses in research." In his conclusion, Seb echoes some of my own thoughts regarding the use of weblogs for Personal Publishing. For me, weblogs is about personal publishing -- which is used to: test concepts identify potential areas where my thinking can be useful to others identify potential published products provide me with a way to release my work to readers who eventually will pay. See my other note on this I wrote earlier today.       7:26:05 AM