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Live blogging workshop on online network analysis at UW, Digital Media Working Group (DMWG).

Participants: Kirsten Foot, The Coproduction of Online Structures, Associate Professor, UW; Rachel Gibson, The Study of Weblinks as Communicative Devices, Chair, New Media Studies, University of Leicester, UK; Clifford Tatum, Hyper-Lurk Analysis, PhD student, Communication, UW; and Mike Xenos, Making Sense of Link-Based Network Patterns, Associate Professor, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read the rest of this entry »

Horse’s Mouth publishes a letter from Chinese reporters at the WSJ … on why the family should resist the overture from Rupert Murdoch. Pre-blogs, not only would this have not been published … few outside of the immediate “news” family would have been talking about the takeover bid.

Blog bash: 30 days, 30 bloggers, 30 essays (during April) on being a better writer/blogger. From Chitika Blog. (tip)

The eBook is available via pdf.

It may be almost mid-2007, but the 2006 Information Architects of Japan picks for web services, news, social networks, social links, corporations and blogs is still worth a look. Its heuristics: content, design, usability, behavior and marketing. For reference, it includes a website’s Alexa rating, but that’s not a measurement.

Some sites that might be new to you:

• 37signals - I would have put this in the services camp. Time called the company a “rising star.” Their online (Web 2.0) services: Basecamp (project management); Backpack (information manager), Campfire (real-time group chat), Highrise (a simple CRM tool). Unlike many Web 2.0 technologies, these are free only for a trial (30 day) period — except for Campfire, which is free for four simultaneous connections.
• memeorandum - My personal favorite for finding out what the political blogosphere is talking about right now. Recently added an archive feature. Maybe they were thinking about academics, researchers?
• reddit.com - IA’s “clear winner” in link lists trumped digg as well as de.licio.us (but not by much).
• subtraction - A blog written by the (35 yo) creative director at the NYT online.

Note 1: I found IA because of their Web Trend Map. I no longer remember how I found out about it, though!

Note 2: I haven’t died, I’ve simply been blogging at USPolitics and my three (3!) classes this quarter: com300, com460 and com586. I need a widget to pull those links over here.

Login to the UW Library website, go to databases, and select Proquest.

To find only scholarly articles, be sure to select the “scholarly article” checkbox. Otherwise, you can select the scholarly “tab” on the results screen.

Use the simple or advanced search.

When you find an article that seems interesting, “mark” it by selecting the checkbox. Proquest maintains a list of your marked articles for this search session.