Comments on: Blogger Motivations: Power Pull and Positive Feedback

By: technology and the social » The New Year

technology and the social » The New Year — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:22:38 +0000

[...] It’s been about a year since I moved to this spiffy wordpress blog from my humble beginnings over at blogger. I’ve learned a lot about blogging not just through the blogging study I did, but also the technicalities as well. By watching my stats - which I had never done much in the ten years or so I’ve had a web site - I learned something I should have known for a long time - don’t EVER change the address of things if you can possibly help it - you could loose traffic & screw up your rankings. Now, of course, my original web host from 1995 doesn’t exist and I wouldn’t want that address anyway, but changing from erickamenchen.net/wordpress to blog.erickamenchen.net was a mistake in terms of my Technorati ranking and probably Google pagerank & probably the move over from blogger had some consequences too. [...]

By: Mathemagenic

Mathemagenic — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:58:33 +0000

AOIR: my selection of papers

By: Jon Garfunkel

Jon Garfunkel — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 04:53:40 +0000

Well, it’s not exactly “professionals” but any people with a shared interest.
See this definition. — Jon

By: Ericka

Ericka — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:41:35 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful comment Jon. I see that I’ll need to flesh out the design intent part (or leave it out). The friends / professionals distinction didn’t come up with the college students I spoke to, but I can definitely see that with my own experience. Thanks also for the contact.

By: Jon Garfunkel

Jon Garfunkel — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:03:19 +0000

Interesting paper. From your conclusion:

“It was likely the intent of those who designed blogging software to alleviate the technical drudgery of updating web content. The social aspects of blog use demanded more features that enabled conversation and community.”

Certainly you could analyze more about “those who designed blogging.”– Winer for example. Yes, it was part about alleviating the drudgery, but there were DB-based tools at the time. It certainly compressed the process of uploading content (since the DB-based tools were a pricier then). But also remember part of the reason Winer created blogs was for promotion. Hence the PR/marketing embrace of blogs.

Also I would advise distinguishing between communities of friends and communities of practice, the latter of which have more functional needs then simply reading/writing each other.

BTW, I suggested to Eszter at NWU that she contact you. Or visa-versa. You have similar research interests and are in the same city. Good luck! — Jon