Tag Archives: blogs
Histories and definitions of blogging
[ I gave a guest lecture in Devan Rosen’s CMC class earlier this week, and that got me thinking about the history, present, and future of blogging. This installment is the history part (though it doesn’t contain much history!). ] The most widely read piece of meta-blogging is Rebecca Blood’s Weblogs: a History and Perspective. […]
When astroturfing goes bad
Mazda looks to a fake blog to astroturf their new M3. Viral goes bad when bloggers notice some tells in the hosting of the blog. Egg on Mazda’s face? Google still has a cache of the blog, at least until Mazda gets them to take it down. (Or, free marketing for the company, that gets […]
Not blogging this
When I first arrived at the University of Sussex for the Internet Research conference, I ran into Steve Schneider (SUNY IT), and Randy Kluver (Nanyang). One of the first things Steve said was “You’re going to be disappointed.” This seemed an odd way to start off the conference, but it quickly became clear that the […]
The Manolo Method