February 11, 2003

w3c paper on "semantic blogging"

Seb Paquet points to this W3C paper on "Semantic Blogging and Bibliographies." Very cool stuff.

Web logging, or blogging [ESSENTIAL_BLOGGING], is a well known phenomenon that has a number of attractive features. It provides a very low barrier to entry for personal web publishing and yet these personal publications are automatically syndicated and aggregated via centralized servers (e.g. blogger.com) allowing a wide community to access the blogs. Blogs have a simple to understand structure and yet links between blogs and items (so called blog rolling) supports the decentralized construction of a rich information network. While we want to extend the blogging metaphor, we also want to preserve its key values, especially its simplicity. We want to build on blogging's proven potential for publishing, syndication & discovery, and community formation.

This is the kind of thing that the proposed microcontent research center would want to follow--pointing to it, sponsoring similar research, and bringing folks like this to the workshops.

When this quarter is over (end of February), I'll starting working on the microcontent.info web site--even if we don't get funding, I'd like to start moving forward on a repository of information about blog-related research.

Posted by liz at February 11, 2003 09:36 PM | TrackBack
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I found your ideas and site highly informative on this topic and will certainly use it for future reference as I am highly interested in this field

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Posted by: Anna Hibbert on February 12, 2003 04:30 AM

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Posted by: Anna Hibbert on February 12, 2003 04:31 AM

Are blogs really well-known? Does the average person on the street know about them? Im not so sure.

I was using blogs for months without even knowing what they were. I noticed some people started mentioning weblogs the year before last quite a bit online and I thought I dont know what these weblogy things are but I should do like all the slashdot clones appearing.

Posted by: ABliss on March 4, 2003 02:00 PM

No, they're not that well-known. But I think they're on the tipping point. The addition of blogs on MSNBC, the purchase of Blogger by Google...these are the things that will start to change the balance.

Posted by: Liz on March 4, 2003 02:09 PM

I'm trying to find some kind of data on how many hits web logs get compared to traditional news web sites. I think this would be a great way to study how popular they are becoming as a news source. Does anyone know where I can find information like this?

Posted by: Chelsea on March 31, 2003 08:06 PM