Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
In my 2008 thesis on ‘Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations‘ in the chapter on the History of Blog Software and Blog Engines I wrote about Dave Winer’s role within the pre-blog BBS-scene and his DaveNet (1994) and Scripting News (1997). Back then I used the Internet Archive to track down… Read more History of Winer’s Blogging points to October 7, 1994
Blogging is often seen as a new form of journalism, an online diary or a democratising medium which potentially gives every citizen a voice. However, what can we say about blogging and the blogosphere if we look at blogs from within the medium? In other words, what is blogging when we look at the software… Read more My WordCampNL talk: “The Blog as Database”
More photos in my WordCampNL 2009 Flickr set.
Yesterday I attended the first ever WordCampNL where I gave a talk about “The blog as database. Blogging and the blogosphere through the eyes of software and search engines.” I talked about how research can tell us something about current blogging culture through three concepts: Freshness Fetish (an internal wish to update, the consensus within… Read more Slides from my presentation at the first WordCampNL
Cursus webloggen @ASVA View more documents from annehelmond.
Op dinsdag 27 oktober van 14.00 uur tot 17.00 uur geef ik een cursus bloggen (beginners & gevorderden) voor studenten (aanmelding via de ASVA studentenunie). Een van de onderdelen van de cursus is: Waarom zou ik als student gaan bloggen? Hoe kan ik mijn blog gebruiken voor mijn scriptie of onderzoek? Hoe kan Twitter dienen… Read more Cursus bloggen via ASVA