1. Researching blogs and blogging research: synergies of colliding worlds Lilia Efimova Telematica Instituut Networked Research and Digital Information (Nerdi) 21 June 2005

2. It’s exactly 3 years since I started blogging… What my weblog did to my research during that time?

5. Social ecosystem (1) Weblogs as narratives of personal thinking and feeling Weblogs as online identities getting to know W reading

6. Social ecosystem (2) W W W + Linking as personal recommendation

7. Social ecosystem (3) Peer-filtering worth reading nice to know WWWW ++?+ – – …. ….... …. ….….. …… …. …… …. …. ….... …. ….….. …… …. …… …. …. …....... …… …. …… …. …. ….... …. ….….....,,.. …. … …….... ……..

8. Social ecosystem (4) Distributed conversations W W W W …. ….... …. ….….. …… …. …… …. …. ….... …. ….….. …… …. …… …. …. …....... …… …. …… …. …. ….... …. ….….....,,.. …. … …….... ……..

9. Social ecosystem (5) Connecting with a community

11. PhD: Personal knowledge management conversations collaboration making sense of information, creativity, organising ideas establishing and maintaining relations awareness, exposure, lurking 2.Communities & networks 1. Individual 3. Ideas developing ideas developing relations

12. Relations

13. Patterns of connected ideas

15. Blogger vs. researcher

17. Blogging = research? Not documenting, doing How? Everyday grounded theory Autoethnography –Personal experience as a source of research questions –“Those guys did sound research, but why it contradicts my own blogging experiences?” –Evocative stories Others as co-researchers

18. ...blogging is like a loving sexual relationship – you just do not realize how rich and rewarding it is until you have experienced it :) David Gurteen

19. It doesn’t hurt to be prepared… Blogging clicks with some, but not with others Technology is not as easy as bloggers say Reading and lurking is a key Embedding into work/life processes –Time –Creating space for important Scholarly communication –Copyrights –Blind peer-review? –Is it your own work? Methodology traps Some get fired… others find new jobs

20. More? Weblog – blog.mathemagenic.comblog.mathemagenic.com PhD research – iceberg.telin.nliceberg.telin.nl Notes and links for this presentation – https://doc.telin.nl/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-52330/ https://doc.telin.nl/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-52330/