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Ten Reasons Why
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004

IRRODL Rocks Well, I feel a bit special today... into my Bloglines account comes the brand new issue of IRRODL su-bloody-perb.  Among the excellent notes, articles and reviews comes the new editorialship of Terry Anderson which brings with it something even more interesting: "...This issue also marks the first in our new “continuous batch” publication model. Beginning this issue, IRRODL will be published when we have enough quality, peer reviewed main and research note articles, book reviews, and technical notes to compile an issue..." [Something New - Something Old] Which sounds just, well, good. The printer's rolling... go check it out yourself! 11:15:39 AM    comments   trackback

Blog without comments Heh, tempted as I was to just repost Alan's two posts on the nature of blogging and comments I thought that a better way to make my point would be to blog it, rather than comment, but I'll get to why in a minute. A rough synopsis of the posts (just to get my head straight here) is that blogs without comments features aren't blogs at all and neither are 'echo blogs' which just lift content without comment. Now I agree with the second part of that wholeheartedly but I don't really go along with the idea that you might as well be dreamweavering instead of blogging as in this case the software allows people to share stuff, really easily, with lots of people and I'm guessing here but I reckon that most people wouldn't have been able to do this prior to our little helpers coming along.... which is a good thing (as with Ray Schroeder's excellent Online Learning Update) But more to the point why am I writing this? Well, a bit back I asked Tom Hoffman (of Tuttle SVC) if he would consider turning on / setting up comments for his blog as I frequently read stuff there that I wanted to comment on. I can't remember exactly what Tom's reply was but they didn't get turned on, which is fair enough, it's his blog! Now this put me in an interesting position, I wanted to make comments like 'interesting point, have you thought about...?' but couldn't, so what to do? Well, each time I read something of Tom's and wanted to comment / expand / develop on it the only way I could do so was to blog my thoughts (go on, try and find contact details) and as I really don't want to put readers though the mangle of me rambling aimlessly on (you wouldn't have guessed it would you :oD) I had to make that a worthwhile post, give it a bit of thought and add something useful to the conversation... now, would I have gone through the same process in his comments area? Probably not. [Now, I know that Stephen has probably shot me out of the water by commenting in depth many times (not to mention to Alan's first post) but that comment probably wouldn't work to well in OLDaily and might not hold down a spot on his homepage... perhaps Stephen is a comment blogger of sorts?] So I'd like to contend that a blog without comments does lose out on a certain type of discourse (the 'rough and tumble' of comments - does anyone know of any discourse analysis on this? I imagine that it would turn out to be not dissimilar to many bulletin board discourses?) BUT in many ways is perhaps more of a blog (by Alan's definition) than a blog with comments, as 'more valuable' comments, the kind involving listening, interpreting and developing on, are better facilitated without the little beasties. No comments = Smarter conversations (perhaps) And that's why I blogged this :o) But I guess you could always comment and prove me wrong! 11:00:31 AM    comments   trackback

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