blogresearch

What I'm doing

Hi, all. I'll forego the self-intro (I am my blog), and instead suggest some things I'm interested in lately that might have brought me here.

1. The most bloggy thing I'm working on now is a project to, in basic terms, replicate Google's Zeitgeist for the blog world, looking at what topics seem to be the fastest gainers and what is being said about them. A realistic goal for a prototype, given other active projects right now, is January. I presented something of a proof-of-concept for this at the Association for Internet Researchers conference in October.

2. I've just initiated some work with a student named Taso Lagos on exchanges between Greek and US bloggers via their blogs. This is proposed as part of a panel on blogging at International Communication Association meeting in San Diego in May.

I'm doing some other stuff on Slashdot and the Zapatistas, but neither are directly related to personal blogs. I've given this address over to some colleagues who may be interested in joining up, either from the US side or elsewhere. If they have some interest, I'll sign them onto the board.

I think a number of possibilities have been brought together. Assuming a large (I know, "medium"; but over $1 mill seems large to me), multiyear program, we should probably brainstorm about (a) the ultimate hoped-for product, and (b) what milestone(s) we would expect to reach within the first 9 months or so.