In my last two posts, I wrote about the limitations of one method for tracking memes and the promise of second method. That latter method, in brief, was to tag each meme-containing post with a unique text string that could enable you to use a search engine as an aggregator. But how can this be […]
Archive for August, 2004
Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part III
Published by August 31st, 2004 in Blogging, Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Build This, Please and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsTracking Memes in the Wild, Part II
Published by August 31st, 2004 in Blogging and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 0 CommentsIn my last post I talked about a meme tracking experiment and bemoaned the fact that it provided no way to track arbitrary memes in the wild. Luckily, an e-Literate reader put me on the track to a workable idea in his comment on a previous post.
Martin Terre Blanche points us to a post on […]
Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part I
Published by August 31st, 2004 in Blogging and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 0 CommentsThe other day, I ran into this post on the Contentious weblog which, in turn, led me to this longer post about an experiment conducted by a PhD student. Basically, he created a survey that he asked people to fill out, post to their blogs, and then pass on, like chain email. He wanted to […]
EDUCAUSE Wiki Article
Published by August 29th, 2004 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 0 CommentsEvery once in a while, you read an article where the author seems to be able to read your mind and anticipate your every reaction. Brian Lamb’s EDUCAUSE piece on wikis is one of those articles. I’ve never been all that interested in wikis; they just don’t seem like they should work (even though I’m […]
The Definitive Article on Educational Blogging
Published by August 29th, 2004 in Blogging, Instructional Design and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsI’m going to do something I normally don’t like to do an echo blog this. Stephen Downes’ piece on educational blogging in EDUCAUSE is currently the definitive piece on blogging in education. Well worth the read whether you are a newbie or a veteran. I don’t really have anything of use to add here; Stephen […]
