Blog de Voyage en Amérique du Sud
Posted: July 7th, 2003 | No Comments »Mon ex-collocataire, mais toujours cousin et ami Mathieu tient un blog pendant son projet Le Chemin de l’équité en Amérique du Sud.
Mon ex-collocataire, mais toujours cousin et ami Mathieu tient un blog pendant son projet Le Chemin de l’équité en Amérique du Sud.
I stubbled on an article in the NY Times on addiction to information. Here are the parts I found most informative. So how much is too much!? And is multitasking counterproductive!? Based on this article, I must admit that it makes me consider taking more Internet-free weekends:
Some sinks at the EPFL seem to have been downgraded to new-old-style warm-watter-less sinks (from my trip in Lausanne last week). Are our elite researchers back to pratical technology?
Dans le cadre de mes cours d’espagnol à l‘Universidad de Oviedo (Asturias, Espana), je suis allé à une conférence donnée par le directeur du département de Filologia Espanola, José Antonio Martínez García. Même si mon niveau d’espagnol est rudimentaire j’ai tout de même pu comprendre certains points sur l’état de la langue espagnole dans le monde:
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Here I a few thoughts gathered while discussing portals and blogs on TecfaSEED:
Idea of a blog/portal publishing tool:
- The ultimate goal of “Tell a portal” could be described as “Write once, publish everywhere”. Meaning a contribution (article) written on a [we-]blog/portal can be published in another [we-]blog/portal. The owner keeping full ownership of his contribution (keep the article on his personal blog or simply on his PC/PDA, …).
- It is based on the idea the we live in individualistic societies where people want to be noticed (if not rewarded) and want to be able to keep ownership of their contributions (e.g. to keep as centralized personal knowledge base).
- Use of trackbacks to follow discussion on multiple sites
- In some ways, freelance journalists and editorialists already work in such way (write an editorial which is published in several papers).
- one-does-it-all portal application need to be nuked and be replaced by distributed portals i.e. a portal should only be a thin layer/proxy which aggregates content and tools.
- I believe that a portal like TecfaSEED needs more personal contribution/thoughts and not only “hey I have seen this and go test it yourself” kind of post. Personal contributions are found in weblogs.
- Use of a cache to store distributed content
Drawbacks
- Editing needs to be synchronized across multiple sites
- Might be harder to build communities if contributors do not even dare connecting to portals
Portal and blog contributors/communities:
- I believe people writing in portals do it mainly when they become community leaders and start to “own” the virtual place. From that point of view I do not think they are less egomaniac and more sharing-oriented than personal bloggers. People do not heavy contribute outside of their sphere of ownership. Nico did not agree with that statement and replied “check slashdot.org and count the number of “anonymous coward” who posts comments !!!!”
Reasons tro write in my blog first (and then maybe post somewhere else):
- full ownership of my contribution (my writings won”t disappear when a third person decides so… what happens if the TecfaSEED community dies and the activity is stopped on the portal)
- some sort of personal knowledge management (caterorized, sortable, searchable)
- centralized way to keep track of my thoughts
- self-creation of my own community (links, blogroll, trackbacks)
- a proof of some of my knowledge/contributions to a future employer
My own terms to describe both communities:
Blog: self-centered, evolving (based on bursts) individual-centered
Portal: “anchored”, topic-centered
An paper on the evolution of the Blogspace: “On the Bursty Evolution of Blogspace“
The 9 design strategies for community building mentionned in Community Building by Amy Jo Kim:
Vivian pointed me to another book worth reading on the subject of online communities: “Design for Community” by Derek M. Powazek.
I stubbled on the The Advertising Slogan Generator. If I ever want to brand myself, it came out with “No Fabien, No Comment”, “My Anti-Drug is Fabien” or “Schhh… You Know Fabien”
Weekend in Zürich. We took some time to enjoy the different “Bäder” the little big city has to offer including along the Limmat river the Oberer Letten (excellent for an evening social drink) and the Unterer Letten, on the lake shores the Tiffenbrünnen. Still to be discovered the Rimini Bar and the Seebad Enge. More infos on badi-info.ch.