Monthly Archives: May 2004

Blogging WWW2004 : Link authority in blogosophere

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

Link authority and reputation management are two big topics at the conference. That ties into New Media Musing’s post today touching on which mainsteam news sources are most-cited by the blogosphere, according to Technorati data.

And the winners are? NYT, CNN, BBC, Washington Post. I believe this reflects the nature of the topics in the top-ranked blogs (hint: Campaign 2004 and Iraq). The data also suggest that bloggers serve an important role as news information filter (aka gatekeeper, mediator).

Blogging WWW2004 : Link authority in blogosophere

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

Link authority and reputation management are two big topics at the conference. That ties into New Media Musing’s post today touching on which mainsteam news sources are most-cited by the blogosphere, according to Technorati data.

And the winners are? NYT, CNN, BBC, Washington Post. I believe this reflects the nature of the topics in the top-ranked blogs (hint: Campaign 2004 and Iraq). The data also suggest that bloggers serve an important role as news information filter (aka gatekeeper, mediator).

Blogging WWW2004 : SCORM

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

I attended a session on SCORM today — which I think of as “XML for Educators.” The big goal seems to be to make learning “objects” reusable. Whether it’s too complex or too abstract for adoptability is, I believe, a good question.

SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) is about to morph into yet another mouthful-acronym. It has roots in the Department of Defense, Boeing and Airbus.

See more at Cover Pages, RH Associates overview and Advanced Distributed Learning.

The standard has been designed for content authoring vendors. It feels like SGML — something designed for really large institutions — not like HTML — something designed with ease of entry in mind.

Blogging WWW2004 : SCORM

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

I attended a session on SCORM today — which I think of as “XML for Educators.” The big goal seems to be to make learning “objects” reusable. Whether it’s too complex or too abstract for adoptability is, I believe, a good question.

SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) is about to morph into yet another mouthful-acronym. It has roots in the Department of Defense, Boeing and Airbus.

See more at Cover Pages, RH Associates overview and Advanced Distributed Learning.

The standard has been designed for content authoring vendors. It feels like SGML — something designed for really large institutions — not like HTML — something designed with ease of entry in mind.

Blogging WWW2004 : Blogging Workshop

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

Tuesday was “workshop/tutorial” day at WWW2004, and I was participating in the blogosphere workshop. We were a standing-room only crowd, a mix of academics and industry, social scientists and technologists.

Given that this is a technology conference, we had an unusual and stimulating mix of presentations. I was pleasantly surprised at the interest in social networks and communication.

Here are some participant blogs:
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