Eric Bingjiang Liu Media Student's Zone

The social network of blogging – Annotated Bibliography – 9

Blog writing link to other articles or websites on the internet, thus blog builds a new communication method of people on the internet. The new format from webblog is microblog.

Nielsonwire, Social Networks/Blogs Now Account for One in Every Four and a Half Minutes Online, updated 15,06,2010, viewed 17,08,2011

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/global/social-media-accounts-for-22-percent-of-time-online/

The popularity of social media is undeniable – three of the world’s most popular brands online are social-media related (Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia) and the world now spends over 110 billion minutes on social networks and blog sites. This equates to 22 percent of all time online or one in every four and half minutes. For the first time ever, social network or blog sites are visited by three quarters of global consumers who go online, after the numbers of people visiting these sites increased by 24% over last year. The average visitor spends 66% more time on these sites than a year ago, almost 6 hours in April 2010 versus 3 hours, 31 minutes last year

Writing & thinking in weblogs – Annotated Bibliography 8

We post to our blogs as ideas come to us. Daily, hourly, weekly; the frequency
varies but it is a writing that happens in bits and pieces, not in the long hours of thought that suit the clichéd image of the secluded scholar in the ivory tower.

Unit Structures, Are Tags Vannevar Bush's "Trails"?, updated 29,04,2006, viewed 16,08,2011

http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-tags-vannevar-bushs-trails.html

Introducing trails, Bush describes a highly adaptive system of pathfinders back to stuff you care about. If you're going to record an entire life, you need very effective ways to re-find your information. This is not a trivial problem, however - text can be searched effectively, but what about sound and video, pictures and places? We're still figuring that out - and there's a lot of work to do. What's more, media alone isn't good enough; we need context to be able to understand why a kept picture or sound recording is interesting. Microsoft addresses this with textual annotation in the MyLifeBits/Stuff I've Seen work.

Academic – Annotated Bibliography 7

Writing and publishing weblogs allows scholars to have a different relationship
with their audience than we have with readers of traditional academic articles. Although journalists and scholars both write 'articles', the academic article is a far cry from the journalistic article.

Academic research:

 Association of Collage and Research Libries, viewed 15,08,2011

http://acrlog.org/2009/02/18/academic-research-a-painful-process-for-students/

There’s a certain type of research that most academic librarians would be doing on their own campuses if they had the time and resources. That would be organizing student focus groups or even one-on-one conversations in order to gain better insights into how the students conduct their research. That might allow us to better understand how students approach research assignments and where they are most challenged. Aided by that information we could devise more effective methods of helping our students to develop the skills and confidence needed to conduct effective research. The title of this post tells you we have much work to do

Academic publishing:

Gloria H, What is Academic Publishing?, updated 7,04,2011, viewed 15,08,2011

http://www.papersinn.com/blog/what-is-academic-publishing/

Academic publishing is a subfield of publishing and distributes academic research and other scholarly articles. The large part of academic works is published in books, journal article and in thesis form. A significant part of academic publishing depends on peer review or editorial reference to other published articles and academic works.

Autonomy & Openness – Annotated Bibliography 6

Daniel. D, Openness as Strategy: Leading Open Knowledge Communities, updated 14,06,2011, viewed 14,08,2011

http://blog.okfn.org/2011/06/14/openness-as-strategy-leading-open-knowledge-communities

In the extract Tom Matrullo suggests that our own blogs are safe spaces, though you cannot stop others from flaming or criticising you outside your blog, within it you have total editorial control. In Daniel's article, he reviews that the openness of the whole communication phonemenone not only in blog, he said "We live in a world where information and communication technologies have confronted us with new logics of collective action that allow new forms of organizing knowledge and that need new forms of strategic thinking."

Blog worth it? – Annotated Bibliography 5

James.C, Are Your Blogging Efforts Worth It? From Men with pens, Viewed 13,08,2011

http://menwithpens.ca/blogging-roi/

In this article James reviews when the blogger begin to wonder whether blogging is actually getting them anywhere. Is it bringing their results? The answer is revaluate blogging methods and think about whether making changes to how blog would have better impact. Closely relates to our extract the section talk about what is worth blogging, Daniel Chandler describes us writing ourselves through our traditional home pages weblogs “express the personality and interests of their writers as well as the news”. Otherwise James advise people think these when they blogging.

• Spend time and invest energy writing new posts and publishing them
• Maintain your blog on a regular basis to keep it running smoothly
• Invest money into improving and upgrading your site and design so it doesn’t become outdated
• Stay consistent with the quality and usefulness of content to meet reader expectations
• Continually market and promote, either via advertising (which costs money) or presence on social media (which takes time)
• Stay inspired and creative so your posts always sound fresh and interesting
• Present your best foot forward at all times to maintain a good impression
• Change the game from time to time to maintain interest and continue to grow

 Thus it’s an good article not just related to my research topic also give me information that how to make my blog more effective.

The Habermasian Public Sphere – Annotated Bibliography 4

Lincoln .D , The Habermasian Public Sphere,   viewed 12,08,2011

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cspt/documents/10-1a.pdf

In this article Lincoln Dahlberg reviews the the notion of a public sphere of informal citizen deliberation enabling the formation of rational public opinion that can critically guide political systems is seen by many democratic theorists as central to strong democracy. The artivle relates to the information from extract : The Theory of the Public Sphere，Jürgen Habermas.

Here is the video of Jurgen Habermas's interview talking about his histories

What Blog Changes ? – Annotated Bibliography 3

When I search what blog changes in our internet life habit, many bloggers gives the examples.

"Since the early years of 1990s the Web has changed the world and now Weblog is changing the web. While writing this paper, the Microsoft Word programme puts a red line under the word “Weblog” indicating this is a wrong spelling and should be changed. However, weblog is one of our today’s buzzwords and probably will be consider in the next version of this software. It shows weblog has come to our daily conversation recently. Nevertheless, its growth and popularity has been extraordinary. "

Yazdan, M,  weblog change the web ,01,10,2010, viewed 10,08,2011

http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/weblog-changes-web-personal-view.html

Qoute:which clearly reviewed that blog changesd methods of writing and research online. Relating to our extract

" We do argue that blogging influences the way you think about thinking, and that it may change the process of research. To some extent it might even change the method"

Web Blog Software – Annotated Bibliograohy 2

Jennifer. K，Best Weblog/Blog Software Tools, updated 25/06/09, viewed 10/08/2011.

http://webdesign.about.com/od/weblogs/tp/aatp_weblogs.htm

In this article Jennifer Kyrnin reviews the most popular free web blog software. The author introduced each blog software by using her own using experiences and the information from these web blogs’ official web site. It is a wide range of introducing web blog software – seven examples. This article relates to my reading article closely, it talk about web blog software, includes the popular software people know such as wordpress, blogger, and others we may not very familiar with for instance movable type, lyceum and typepad. Thus Jennifer gives us a good way to start bloging.

The List of metioned Web Blog software
1. Movable Type
2. WordPress
3. Lyceum
4. Blogger
5. TypePad
6. Radio Userland
7. Greymatter

What is a blog? – Annotated Bibliography 1

Annotated bibliography extract - Blogging thoughts: personal publication as an online research tool by Torill Mortensen & Jill Walker

Darren.R, What is a blog,  updated 2,5,2005, viewed 06,08,2011(http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/02/05/what-is-a-blog/)

In this article Darren reviews the basic and main uses of web blog. The author Darren started with a few definitions of blog from other peoples, then shared his own experiences of starting blog few years ago which both easy to understand and accurate. His examples of explanation of blog from 5 articles, and examples of uses of blog include archives and comment. The article close to my research topic – blogging, more specific for my first part research – what is a blog. The article introduced us what is a blog in a casual format which is good for blog beginners.

Let's finish with a video that explores the question of what is a blog in a visual form.