Taking On the Questions
Gulp. I may have misunderstood the purpose here. Oops.
So the big banner questions...
If blog entries are viewed as discreet learning objects, if you write each blog entry in that manner, how then does your blog,+ with its modularized content, enrich your personal knowledge management schema?
I have trouble with viewing blog entries as LOs, because they are just blog entries. But let's play... Writing an blog entry as a learning object means.... yes, there is a reason you sat down and decided to write something in a blog, so their is a goal, though hardly as deterministic as traditional objectives. Whether the "object"/blog entry is "re-usable" has little to do with meta data or hanging in a repository.... it more has to do with your network of other bloggers, who reads you, who gets your feeds, who you send a link of your entry to. It has a great deal with your writing style (or lack there of), your ability to be interesting, intriguing, human.
The reason for blogging has not as much to do with creating content, or creating objects, as just sometimes reflection, exposition, rants, etc. See Cory Doctorow's classic My Blog, My Outdoor Brain:
What about meta data? Blog tools such as WordPress, MovableType do embed a bit of meta data as RDF tags, used primarily for trackback autodiscovery, but there have been some people out there who write weird code to use that information for interesting purposes.
As a management, tool I rely on my blog frequently (using the search tool) to locate something I remembered writing about, but not recalling thr exact source (i did that just a few minutes ago to find the link above). My blog, much more than a bookmark, provides the context I originally created.
But it's more than my blog, it is the other blogs I read mostly via their RSS feeds, that provides a community inout of new ideas that I frequently scan, digest, explore, etc. It is the loose connections that count.
How does your blog (or can your blog) be shaped and molded deliberately to generate new ideas?
By not worrying about being a published paper, but asking questions in your writing, but inviting others for ideas. I woudl say a key point is linking to other blogs, and making sure you use blog tools that can issue and receive trackbacks (unless Blogger which is rather minimal in features)-- There is little more rewarding than finding an email message of a trackback, meaning a link to someone else's blog who recently wrote something connected to something in your own blog. These are especially exciting when the source is a blog you have not read before-- meaning your network has just expanded beyond there it was the day before.
In particular, how can a team blog be structured so that everyone’s voice circles around the same basic focus or theme?
I am clueless here. I am wary of attempts to "structure", as blogs by nature, by design are not tightly bound systems. I for one do not really want to hang out where everyone is so like minded and singing the same song ;-) The good stuff is in the disagreement, the differing viewpoints. I am less interested in structure group blogs that having a loose coupling of individual blogs who have overlapping interests.
It comes down I would guess to having a moderator, by having some buy in, by having like minded goals. By accepting there will be off-topic behavior. By knowing when you are done and it is time to move on.
??
So the big banner questions...
If blog entries are viewed as discreet learning objects, if you write each blog entry in that manner, how then does your blog,+ with its modularized content, enrich your personal knowledge management schema?
I have trouble with viewing blog entries as LOs, because they are just blog entries. But let's play... Writing an blog entry as a learning object means.... yes, there is a reason you sat down and decided to write something in a blog, so their is a goal, though hardly as deterministic as traditional objectives. Whether the "object"/blog entry is "re-usable" has little to do with meta data or hanging in a repository.... it more has to do with your network of other bloggers, who reads you, who gets your feeds, who you send a link of your entry to. It has a great deal with your writing style (or lack there of), your ability to be interesting, intriguing, human.
The reason for blogging has not as much to do with creating content, or creating objects, as just sometimes reflection, exposition, rants, etc. See Cory Doctorow's classic My Blog, My Outdoor Brain:
Blogging gave my knowledge-grazing direction and reward. Writing a blog entry about a useful and/or interesting subject forces me to extract the salient features of the link into a two- or three-sentence elevator pitch to my readers, whose decision to follow a link is predicated on my ability to convey its interestingness to them. This exercise fixes the subjects in my head the same way that taking notes at a lecture does, putting them in reliable and easily-accessible mentalregisters.
What about meta data? Blog tools such as WordPress, MovableType do embed a bit of meta data as RDF tags, used primarily for trackback autodiscovery, but there have been some people out there who write weird code to use that information for interesting purposes.
As a management, tool I rely on my blog frequently (using the search tool) to locate something I remembered writing about, but not recalling thr exact source (i did that just a few minutes ago to find the link above). My blog, much more than a bookmark, provides the context I originally created.
But it's more than my blog, it is the other blogs I read mostly via their RSS feeds, that provides a community inout of new ideas that I frequently scan, digest, explore, etc. It is the loose connections that count.
How does your blog (or can your blog) be shaped and molded deliberately to generate new ideas?
By not worrying about being a published paper, but asking questions in your writing, but inviting others for ideas. I woudl say a key point is linking to other blogs, and making sure you use blog tools that can issue and receive trackbacks (unless Blogger which is rather minimal in features)-- There is little more rewarding than finding an email message of a trackback, meaning a link to someone else's blog who recently wrote something connected to something in your own blog. These are especially exciting when the source is a blog you have not read before-- meaning your network has just expanded beyond there it was the day before.
In particular, how can a team blog be structured so that everyone’s voice circles around the same basic focus or theme?
I am clueless here. I am wary of attempts to "structure", as blogs by nature, by design are not tightly bound systems. I for one do not really want to hang out where everyone is so like minded and singing the same song ;-) The good stuff is in the disagreement, the differing viewpoints. I am less interested in structure group blogs that having a loose coupling of individual blogs who have overlapping interests.
It comes down I would guess to having a moderator, by having some buy in, by having like minded goals. By accepting there will be off-topic behavior. By knowing when you are done and it is time to move on.
??
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