Monthly Archives: November 2004

2004 Academic Weblog Awards: Nominations

Notice that there is no “Scholarly Blog” category for the 2004 weblog awards. Given some recent interest in the area, this sounds like something there _should_ be, if only so that we have a better grasp of what people think is important in an academic weblog. So I propose you make such nominations here. I [...]
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Most wanted quiz

I think I score about a 14 out of 22, which means that I am apparently _not_ “Hell’s most wanted,” but I am pretty far up there. Although I aspire to the lower circles, I can’t seem to get past the sixth level (you know: heretics). I’m working on it, though; I may be pretty [...]
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Firefoxy

I know many of my more far-flung readers have, like me, been using Firefox for a very long time. When I saw the features list, I almost didn’t make the move to version 1.0, because everything was working so well. I’m glad I did. Maybe it’s my imagination, but it seems even faster. It still [...]
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Schoogle

Every academic list I am on, and quite a few blogs, have been giddy all day over Google’s new scholarly-only site: http://scholar.google.com. I’m not the only one to notice that blogs seem strangely absent, but occasional and working papers, self-hosted, seem to appear. Actually, that’s not entirely true. For example, one of my blog postings [...]
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Performance measures

At some point, you want to know that you are reaching the public. Hey, I’m going to want to know that *of* you. So, there are a few metrics we might consider for that. *Traffic* I can get a traffic report that lets me know how many people are visiting your site each month. You [...]
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Sticky software

A bunch of social softwarians discover the pleasures of sticky paper.Some of the best social software breakthroughs are yet to come inpurely physical spaces. Ever feel as if you are being labeled?
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Moblogging made EZ

So, what is mobloging? “Mobile web logging.” That is, creating web posts on the fly. And since you are a hip happening twenty-something like me, you are always on the go. Can you believe they wanted me to buy a minimum of five bottles last night to secure the corner booth. Don’t they know they [...]
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