Francessa's Blog Research

Blogging/Mikroblogging

2010-05-24T13:24:00.001-07:00

This is the Online-Introduction and Overview into Blogging for my Proseminar (in German).

Weblog-Portale/Accounts:

Österreichisches Blogverzeichnis
Blogger
Typepad, auch für Mikroblogs
Wordpress
Posterous
Blogg
Blogigo

Portale:

Wikio (Die Themen der deutschsprachigen Blogosphäre)
DeepBlog - Portal/englischsprachig

Mikroblog-Portale/Accounts:

Twitter
Identica
Tumblr
Yammer
Posterous
Ping
qaiku

WIKIO-Blogranking (German language blogs):

Wikio-Blogranking

Politik

Gesellschaft

High Tech

Marketing

Sport

Wissenschaft

Kultur

Mode

Kreativ-Blogs

Media

Weitere persönliche Weblogs/Personal Weblogs:

Nicci Pain
Timanfaya
Lapared
Gedanken oder Fragen
Redblog Gedanken über Politik und Alltag
Oliver Gassner
Journalistisches Weblog eines Studenten/Journalisten/Sportlers

Blogs mit Österreich-Bezug/Austrian weblogs

Georg Holzer
ZeitBlog
Wienblog

Österreichische Politikblogs/Weblogs of Austrian politicians

Corporate Blogs und Public Relations

Shopblogger
Demmers Teeblog
Blog der Österreich Werbung
Blog von „Clara“, einer Schauspielerin, die für Microsoft bloggt," anfänglich nicht als Marketing gekennzeichnet. (Steht in Zusammenhang mit der „Journey to Simplicity“, einer Social Media Experience zum Launch von Windows 7)
Blog und Tweets über IAA und BMW
Weblog einer Schmuckfirma
Daimler-Blog
Blog der Präsidentin der Wiener Wirtschaftskammer"

Übersicht über PR-Blogs:
Online PR

Klaus Eck, Kapazität unter den PR-Bloggern

Marken und Firmen auf Twitter
Lidl auf Twitter

Weblogs - Journalismus/journalism

Top 50 Journalismus-Blogs, englisch

Online Journalismus.de
Weblogs von Journalisten
Blogs von Journalisten

Weblogs von Zeitungen/newspapers:

Sueddeutsche
Guardian
DerStandard
Eishockey-Blog, Kleine Zeitung Kärnten, von Stefan Jaeger

Rankings von twitternden Journalisten

Wortgefecht, Blog über Social Media, Marketing, Kommunikationswissenschaft

Serie der Deutschen Welle über Blogs im Iran, Spanien, China, England, Arabien, Deutschland, Brasilien, Russland

Bewerbe, Rankings, Best of Blogs, Awards etc.:

Deutsche Blogcharts

BloggersChoice: alle möglichen Kategorien wie Humor Blogs, Blogs about Blogging, Blog Design, Hottest Daddy Blogger, Hottest Mommy Blogger etc.

Best of Blogs 2008 Pet Blogs, Video Blogs, Adoption & Fertility Blogs etc.

Bloggies
Bestes Teen-Blog 2008

Twittercharts und Rankings:

Top 100 österreichische Twitterer
Deutsche Twitter-Charts

Top 10 Blogger lt. Technorati

1. Huffington Post
2. Techcrunch
3. Mashable
4. Gizmodo
5. Engadget
6. Googleblog
7. BoingBoing
8. Lifehacker
9. TMZ
10.Arstechnika.

Researching the Social Web

2009-11-13T08:38:00.001-08:00

1. Alerts:

GoogleAlerts
Tweetbeep
Socialmention

2.Feeds und Feedreader:

Netvibes
Newsgator
GoogleReader

3.Soziales Verschlagworten:

De.licio.us
MisterWong
MrTaggy

4. Applikationen in Social Networks selbst

Facebook Lexikon nur mit FB-Anmeldung
InsideFB
Facebook Adonomics

5. Suchplattformen

Wikia

6.Social Search

Bing
Zakta
80legs
Collecta
Rankspeed
Stylight
Duckduckgo
Sidestripe für FB
Socialmention
Mashable
Leapfisch

7. Frage-Antwort-Dienste, Expertensuche

Cosmiq
Yahoo-Answers
LinkedIn mit Anmeldung

8. Umfragen

Surveymonkey

9. Twitter bezogene Suchdienste:

tweetbeep
twubs
tweetMeme
twittersheep
tweetworks
twitority
songly
wefollow
twazzup
twitalyzer
twollo
topsy
tweepler
twitition
twitterfall
backtweets
searchtastic
lizzer (Mikro-)Blogging-Tool

10. Textdokumente und Powerpoint-Präsentationen

docmacy
slideshare
scribd
docstoc

10.a. Youtube

YoutubeWissenschaft

11. Statistiken und Daten

Nielsen Net-Ratings
Hitwise
Statista
Hootsuite
PEW Internet
w3counter
Internet Welt-Statistiken
Alexa

12. Online-Notizen

UberNote
Webnote
RememberTheMilk
Backpack
tasktoy
zoho
syncnotes

McCann research

2008-09-21T08:27:00.001-07:00

Universal MCCann: Blogging shows no signs of slowing its growing prominence in popular culture and society - figures and statistics.

The link doesn't work, apparently, so that's the URL:

http://www.universalmccann.com/assets/wave_3_20080403093750.pdf

A Weblog Webliography

2008-08-27T00:42:00.000-07:00

Great collection from Kairosnews, a weblog for discussing rhetoric, technology and pedagogy

Teens and Social Media

2008-01-27T11:29:00.000-08:00

Family, Friends & Community - Teens and Social Media: The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media

Pew-Internet by Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Alexandra Ranking, Macgill Aaron Smith.

Teens and Online Social Networks

2007-05-05T09:56:00.000-07:00

There's new research on teens:

Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks.

How teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of Myspace (April 18, 2007), by Amanda Lenhart and Mary Madden - via PEW Internet & American Life Project.

Research Synopsis

2007-03-11T12:24:00.000-07:00

There's a research synopsis on Blogging and Journalism in German.

Happiness Reflected in Blogs

2007-03-11T12:08:00.000-07:00

Happiness Reflected in Blogs, research paper by Rada Mihalcea, from the University of North Texas, and Hugo Liu, from MIT, [PDF] about happiness and the way it's reflected in blogs (via Steve Rubel).

Weblog Webliography

2007-03-08T12:23:00.000-08:00

Here's a weblog named Kairosnews for discussing rhetoric, technology and pedagogy with a good weblog webliography.

Master list of blog articles

2006-12-18T13:52:00.000-08:00

Dan's Blog Resources has a Master List of blog articles.

Blogtalk Reloaded

2006-10-01T14:03:00.000-07:00

Blogtalk Reloaded,"international conference on social software, networks, innovation, and collaboration for organizations, corporations and humble private users" (quote) will take place on Oct. 2 and 3 in Vienna!

Paper on "Language Networks on Live Journal"

2006-09-24T11:17:00.000-07:00

There's a preprint of the BROG's (= The (We)blog Research on Genre Project ) newest paper "Language Networks on Live Journal". The paper will be presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 3-6, 2007.

Research: the Internet's New Storytellers

2006-09-21T11:26:00.000-07:00

New Research of Bloggers (PEW Internet and American Life Project):

Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers from 7/19/2006 by Amanda Lenhart and Susannah Fox.

Short summary:
A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology. Blogs, the survey finds, are as individual as the people who keep them. However, most bloggers are primarily interested in creative, personal expression – documenting individual experiences, sharing practical knowledge, or just keeping in touch with friends and family.

The Polish Blogosphere

2006-06-19T11:32:00.000-07:00

The Polish Blogosphere

The Romanian Blogosphere

2006-06-09T10:42:00.000-07:00

Wikipedia-Link Romanian Blogosphere

Explanation of the Blogging Phenomenon

2006-05-18T23:43:00.000-07:00

The Blogging Phenomenon Explained, by searchandgo.

On the same site links to "blogging software", "types of blogs" "challenges of blogging".

State of the Blogsphere, Part II

2006-05-02T08:47:00.000-07:00

State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 2: On Language and Tagging", by David Sifry

All-about-Blogging-Collection

2006-03-17T13:18:00.000-08:00

A nice collection about blogging in Wikipedia

Contents include:
* 1 Blog basics
o 1.1 How blogs differ from traditional sites
o 1.2 Difference from forums or newsgroups
o 1.3 Digital media
* 2 History
o 2.1 Precursors
o 2.2 Blogging appears
o 2.3 Blogging gains influence
o 2.4 Blogging gains popularity
* 3 Blog Popularity Dynamics
* 4 Blogging and the traditional
* 5 How blogs are made
* 6 Types of blogs
o 6.1 Personal
o 6.2 Cultural
o 6.3 Topical
o 6.4 Business
o 6.5 Science
o 6.6 Moblog
o 6.7 Collaborative
o 6.8 Eclectic
o 6.9 Educational
o 6.10 Directory
o 6.11 Forum
o 6.12 Spam
o 6.13 Sketch
o 6.14 Photoblogs
o 6.15 PollBlogs
o 6.16 Political blog
* 7 Common terms
* 8 See also
* 9 Blogging Software
* 10 Blogging Search Engines
* 11 References
* 12 External links

State of the Blogosphere

2006-03-05T11:10:00.000-08:00

All about the state of the blogosphere by David Sifry

Blogs to Riches

2006-02-27T00:33:00.000-08:00

Clive Thompson in NewYorkMetro on the haves and have-nots of the blogging boom: Blogs to Riches.

Handbook for Bloggers..

2005-11-30T07:48:00.000-08:00

and cyber-dissidents, by Reporters Without Borders, pdf-download here.

Special edition of "kommunikation@gesellschaft"

2005-11-15T10:36:00.000-08:00

A special edition of the German online journal "kommunikation@gesellschaft" (communications and society) devoted to weblog-research issues is available here, but only in German.

Title: Erkundungen des Bloggens. Sozialwissenschaftliche Ansätze und Perspektiven der Weblogforschung.(Exploration of Blogging. Approaches from the Social Sciences and perspectives of weblog-research)

The articles:

Jan Schmidt (Bamberg); Klaus Schönberger (Hamburg & Wien), Christian Stegbauer (Frankfurt a.M.),
Erkundungen von Weblog-Nutzungen. Anmerkungen zum Stand der Forschung

Christopher Coenen (Berlin)
Weblogs als Mittel der Kommunikation zwischen Politik und Bürgern –Neue Chancen für E-Demokratie?

Julia Franz („Diskursive Formationen“ http://blog.twoday.net)
Praktiken des Bloggens im Spannungsfeld von Demokratie und Kontrolle

Rasco Perschke und Maren Lübcke (Hamburg-Harburg)
Zukunft Weblog?! – Lesen, Schreiben und die Materialität der Kommunikation.
Anmerkungen zu einem neuen Typus der Online-Kommunikation aus kommunikationstheoretischer Sicht.

Ingrid Francisca Reichmayr (Wien)
Weblogs von Jugendlichen als Bühnen des Identitätsmanagements. Eine explorative Untersuchung.

Forschungsnotiz:
Steffen Albrecht, Maren Lübcke, Rasco Perschke und Marco Schmitt (Hamburg)
“Hier entsteht eine neue Internetpräsenz“ – Weblogs im Bundestagswahlkampf 2005

New Books by Bloggers

2005-10-09T11:10:00.000-07:00

.. and mostly on blogging and similar topics:

booksbybloggers

Blog - The Information Reformation

2005-09-27T12:50:00.000-07:00

There's a new blog-book:

Hugh Hewitt: Blog - Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World.

Into the Blogosphere

2005-09-14T12:53:00.000-07:00

The European Blogosphere

2005-08-25T13:07:00.000-07:00

The Polish Blogosphere

The Romanian Blogosphere

Loic LeMeur's Wiki about the European Blogosphere.
I'm really wondering about the French.

Corporate Blogging

2005-08-12T15:19:00.000-07:00

My new article on "Corporate Blogging" is available here:
Corporate Blogging: Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit in Zeiten gesteigerter Interaktivität, published in "Medienimpulse 52, June 2005, Vienna, unfortunately in German only (so far).

Here's the
html-version.

Blog Vacation

2005-07-04T22:08:00.000-07:00

This blog is on vacation for the next few weeks. Regular posting will start again in August. Nice holidays everyone!

Sports Blogs

2005-07-03T23:56:00.000-07:00

The 2004 Weblog Awards for best sports blog
covers basketball-, baseball-, golf-, football- and hockeyblogs
Yahoo Directory SportsBlogs

Forbes lists the best sports blogs

An article about sportsblogs by Angelo Bruscas
The most-visited Sportsblog in German: (about soccer, of course):
Fussball-Blog: Zum runden Leder
Nice overview with ranks:
TopBlogs
Here you can find for example skiing news and glacier skiing:
Skiing andmore

A Map of Blogs

2005-07-02T13:09:00.000-07:00

Here's an interesting map of Links to European Newspapers, Opinion Journals, and (in italics) Weblogs.

Blogging and Education

2005-06-29T13:02:00.000-07:00

Weblogg-ed.com is maintained by Will Richardson and "dedicated to discussions and reflections on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, audiocasts and other Read/Write Web related technologies in the K-12 realm, technologies that are transforming classrooms around the world."

LearningCircuitsBlog, "is dedicated to sharing ideas and opinions about the state of learning and technology". *

Blogging & Concepts of Community

2005-06-23T12:36:00.000-07:00

Imagining the Blogosphere: An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing, by Graham Lampa, Hamline University.

Geography of the Blogosphere: Representing the Culture, Ecology and Community of Weblogs, by Nicholas Packwood.

Formation of Norms in a Blog Community, by Carolyn Wei.

Blogging and Journalism

2005-06-23T12:05:00.000-07:00

Blogger vs Journalists is over, by Jay Rosen.

Earn Your Own Trust,Roll Your Own Ethics: Transparency & Beyond, by Bill Mitchell/Bob Steele, Jan. 2005, prepared for the Conference Blogging, Journalism and Credibility, Battleground and Common Ground.

CultureClash: Journalism and the Communal Ethos of the Blogosphere

Blogging as a form of journalism, by J.D.Lasica, Senior Editor of OJR (Online Journalism Review), 2001/02

Iranian Weblogs

2005-06-20T01:50:00.000-07:00

"Blogging has opened a new horizon for self-expression in the traditionally mute Iranian society where individualism was less respected. This characteristic can be accounted for the huge popularity of blogs among especially Iranian youths. There are at least 65,000 active weblogs (Blogcensus.Net) (out of estimated total of 2,000,000), written in the Persian language ..." Read more ...

PR & Corporate Blogging

2005-06-19T12:37:00.000-07:00

A Typology of Corporate Blogs in German: Corporate Blogs by Zerfass

Corporate Blogs List
CEOBlogsList
ProductBlogsList
BizBlogConsultants

PR meets the WWW: great PR & blogging portal

KlausEck, German PR-Blogger

My own contribution, in German, published in Medienimpulse 52/2005, but not yet online:
Corporate Blogging: Neue Formen der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit in Zeiten gesteigerter Interaktivitität.

Why Corporate Blogging Works

The influence of Blogs and the Blogosphere

2005-06-19T10:15:00.000-07:00

Blogs rise to Influence (Wikipedia

How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere, by Kathy E. Gill

My own contribution in German
Wikis, Blikis, Blogs, Vlogs, Moblogs oder Wie internetbasierte Kommunikationsgemeinschaften die Massenmedien beeinflussen können, Medienimpulse 51, 2005

How Journalists see the Blogosphere, by Marci McCoy Roth, 2004

Weblogs in Japan

2005-06-17T00:41:00.000-07:00

JoiIto has some interesting statistics on Japanese Weblogs.

Blog Censorship in China

2005-06-16T07:44:00.000-07:00

Blogs in China are censored by Microsoft and have to face restrictions on what they write according to the BBC.They report that on some parts of Microsofts MSN site in China blog entries using words like "freedom", "democracy" and "human rights" are being blocked.

Microsoft said the company abided by the laws, regulations and norms of each country in which it operates.

Read more here:Microsoft's Chinese portal censors blogs and at Reporters Without Borders.

The question is now: Will Google follow suit and censor its search engine?

Studies, Survey, Research, Polls

2005-06-13T10:56:00.000-07:00

This will take some time, but I'd like to collect here the most important studies on blogging and bloggers of the last years.

There's a preprint of the BROG's (= The (We)blog Research on Genre Project ) newest paper "Language Networks on Live Journal". The paper will be presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 3-6, 2007.

Research of Bloggers (PEW Internet and American Life Project):
Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers from 7/19/2006 by Amanda Lenhart and Susannah Fox.

Short summary:
A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology. Blogs, the survey finds, are as individual as the people who keep them. However, most bloggers are primarily interested in creative, personal expression – documenting individual experiences, sharing practical knowledge, or just keeping in touch with friends and family.

The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging: On Language, Culture, and Power in Persian Weblogestan, by Alireza Doostdar. Keywords: Iran, Weblogs, Computer Mediated Communication, speech genres, social status.

There's a poll by Gallup which says: Blogs Are Not Yet in the Media Big Leagues, and very few Americans read them with any frequency. Lydia Saad writes (March 2005): "The apparent effect that blogging is having within media and political circles is far ahead of its direct impact on the American public. Relatively few Americans are generally familiar with the phenomenon, and fewer still are reading blogs with any frequency. Even among the most blog-conscious demographic -- 18- to 29-year-olds -- frequent blog reading is the exception."

Viégas, F. B. (2005). Bloggers' expectations of privacy and accountability: An initial survey. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10, 3,12

Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis From the Bottom Up", Scheidt et al, 2005

Women and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs, by Herring, Kouper, Scheidt, Wright 2004

Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs, by Herring, Scheidt, Bonus, Wright

The Role of the Author in Topical Blogs, by Scott Carter

PerseusBlogSurvey

Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community, by A. Blanchard

Buzz,Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004, Michael Cornfield, Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Efimova, L. (2004), Discovering the Iceberg of Knowledge Work. In Proc. of the
Fifth European Conference on Organisational Knowledge, Learning, and
Capabilities (OKLC 2004), Innsbruck.

Erickson, T., Halverson, C., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M. and Wolf, T. (2002), Social
Translucence: Designing Social Infrastructures that Make Collective
Activity Visible, Communications of the ACM, 45(4): 40-44.

An Argumentation Analysis of Weblogs
Harrison, T. M. and Stephen, T. (1992), On-Line Disciplines: Computer-Mediated
Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Computers and the
Humanities, 26: 181-193.

Jenkins, E. (2003), Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story In Microdoc News: Online
Magazine about Exercising Personal Power in the Information Age, May
20.

Visual Blogs, by Meredith Badger, 2004: Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs.

Marcoccia, M. (2004), On-Line Polylogues: Conversation Structure and
Participation Framework in Internet Newsgroups, Journal of Pragmatics,
36: 115-145.

Mortensen, T. and Walker, J. (2002), Blogging thoughts: personal publication as
an online research tool. In Researching ICTs in Context (Ed, Morrison, A.),
Intermedia, Oslo.

Röll, M. (2003), Business Weblogs: A Pragmatic Approach to Introducing
Weblogs in Medium and Large Enterprises. In BlogTalk: A European
Conference on Weblogs, Vienna, May 23-24.

Books

2005-06-12T12:23:00.000-07:00

Hugh Hewitt: Blog - Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Our World

Link to Books on Blogs

Blogs, Wikis and Feeds in Action (Dave Johnson), will be released in June 2005.

Blogging for Teens, by John W. Gosney, 2004

Who let the Blogs Out? 2004, by Biz Stone

We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture by Editors of Perseus Publishing

Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World by Hugh Hewitt

The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog by Rebecca Blood

Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content by Biz Stone

Blog On: Building Online Communities with Web Logs by Todd Stauffer

We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs by Paul Bausch

Books in German: Blogbücher in deutscher Sprache:

Blogs, von Don Alphonso, Kai Pahl

Search Engines, Rankings & more

2005-06-12T12:17:00.000-07:00

Here you will find Search Engines, Blogwatches, Directories, Portals, Guides, Discovery Systems and more.

TheTruthLaidBear, ranks according to traffic

TheTruthLaidBear, ranks according to links

Technorati
Blogsearchengine
Blogpulse
Bloguniverse
Blogarama
Blogarithm
Blogexcerpts
Blogexplosion
Bloggernity
Bloglines
Bloghub
Blogmap
Blogsnow
Blogpatrol
Designerz
Blogs4good
Blogstreet
Blogwidow
Blogwise
DeepBlog
GetBlogs
GlobeofBlogs

Archetypes of Blogs & Bloggers

2005-06-12T11:30:00.000-07:00

"This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities..."

Archteypes by Jon Garfunkel
Blog types and blog users by S.A.M. Coggins

Visual Blogs, by Meredith Badger, 2004: Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs.

History, Basics, General

2005-06-12T11:09:00.000-07:00

History of Blogging by Rebecca Blood

History, Timelines by different authors

Manifesto by Andrew Sullivan

Anatomy of a Weblog, by C. Barrett, 1999

D. Winer: What Makes a Weblog a Weblog?

My own contribution, in German:
Unser tägliches Blog gib uns heute. Jäger, Sammler, Zurschausteller, Freaks: Die Weblogger, in Medienimpulse 41, September 2002

Culture in the Age of Blogging by Terry Teachout, 2005