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Monday, July 19, 2004 |
Politics and social influence networks Susan Mernet ask questions about the emerging roll of weblogs in the penultimate of all social influence network phenomena known, the quadrennial presidential elections. We are actually seeing the DNC team up with Bloggers in that they did give out the credentials.
But the bloggers and their readers actually were the first to do the teaming up on with their ability to give rise to the small donor. Sites like Dailey Kos and Echason aka Atrios have both raised serious money for candidates that is having a real and measurable effect on norm formation in their social influence networks. It is a good example of how individuals have used their various other forms of capital (reserves of things that can be used to solve problems) in combinations of ways to in the end generate large sums of financial capital which is the most liquid way of storing the ability to solve problems.
Their computers are examples of physical capital, property land cars stuff you physically own. Examples of their human capital are their knowledge, skills, ability to write and communicate effectively, good health, and their limited time. But without the network it would not be happening. This is more evidence of the important emerging role of Social Capital. The use of the network and the connections on the network to accumulate, store and liberate these debts of gratitude, reputation, and trust to solve problems and convert various combinations of their capital to finical capital. This is why they are getting invited to the conventions. But remember we the readers are also connected to them and are also along for the adventure.
3:46:55 PM 
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This looks like a cool event that goes a bit beyond the usual suspects. Definitely an event at a different boundary than the developers software blogging events.
Building Learning Communities. I'm heading to Boston this afternoon for the Building Learning Communities conference put on by Alan November. I'll be presenting two workshops, one a intro to ed blogging type and the other about new Internet literacies (which I've been using discussions here of late to frame.) I'm going to be interested to see how the second one comes out as it's kind of new territory. (Always fun to push the envelope a bit.)
I'm really looking forward to meeting some of the people who have influenced my own teaching, like Kathy Schrock, and it will be good to see Steve Burt of Clarity Innovations (who is also presenting on blogging) and Amy Pearl, formerly of Intel who I met at the NECC conference in Seattle last year. That's always one of the best parts of going to these...meeting other bloggers and educators who are willing to talk about their ideas and visions.
I think Clarity is planning on blogging the conference in some way, and I'll hopefully be posting some observations here as well. Looks like a great lineup of workshops to choose from. [Weblogg-ed News]
12:34:29 PM
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In my second year of active blogging I'm finding I can follow two or three distinct web rings of bloggers by topic. I'm still cognitively trying to find the best way to participate in each ring. Currently I bounce around and don't stay on topic as well as I would like.
Why Bloggers Read Blogs. (via a whole bunch of sources)
I would agree with most of those, but I would also add something along the lines of "Easy to collect info from a variety of sources." (Not great, I know, but it's early...) There's no doubt that RSS has changed the way I consume information...I'm sure I'd be more inclined to just go to the usual sources without it. [Weblogg-ed News]
12:31:12 PM
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I'll need to take a look at this new web content management suite from Macromedia.
Macromedia unveils Web Publishing System. Macromedia Inc. has put together a software suite for designing, building, managing and editing Web sites that is aimed at users that want a Web content management and publishing system that is simpler to use and less expensive than existing options, the company is announcing Monday.
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12:26:19 PM
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Blogging is being used in many schools as a method to teach better writing skills.
Edu-Blogging - The Movie.
I blogged a few weeks ago about Craig Barrett's keynote speech at NECC where he presented an award to Will Richardson and his students at Hunterdon High School in New Jersey. One thing that I missed was the movie about blogging in education. It a great piece that answers many of the questions about the value of blogging in teaching writing skills and in the educational arena in general. [Scott Young's Radio Weblog]
12:23:44 PM
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