Neat looking article found at Sage. Could be worth a look at some later date.
Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs: Personal Publication and Public Attention: “In the educational system, the system legitimizes itself through creating tools for self-criticism. In this manner, criticism, rather than destabilising the hegemony disseminated through the educational system, reinforces it (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1990b, p. 61). This study of reproduction appears to [...]
A link in the curriculum in webct is to Blogging thoughts:personal publication asan online research tool. It’s a useful and interesting read about where how blogging developed and how it’s being used. Of particular interest is the way that it’s being used by researchers as a research journal and a storage space for links. For [...]
There’s no need to piss everyone off by being fancy with your SEO efforts. Here’s some practical steps to take to improve your website, and your net success without resorting to black hat SEO tactics. Eenjoy 10 Steps to Success on the ‘Net Without SEO
Time Wasting Blog Comments, Comments Policies, and Comment Etiquette : The Blog Herald Useful article on policies around commenting on blogs and encouraging people to leave a comment. My suggestion is to leave the end of the post with a provocative statement or a question that has relevance to the reader, and encouraging people to [...]
How To Run A Corporate Blog / Wired How To’s Here’s a few basic tips on how to run corporate blog. It’s worthwhile getting other opinions on this one though. My main tip is not to be scared to have an opinion and take a bit of heat about what you’ve written. There’s nothing more [...]
Here’s a really interesting article from Darren Rowse at Problogger about strategies to improve subscriber numbers to a blog. What jumps out here is the importance of taking a stand on something – saying something controversial – that polarises opinion. If you had a Gun against your Head to Double your Readership in Two Weeks, [...]