weblog as a personal thinking space

Lilia Efimova @ Hypertext 2009

weblog usesfor developing ideasin a long-term project

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Baby Microsoft

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working on a dissertation

weblog as a knowledge base

autoethnography

weblog as a knowledge base

creating

organising

maintaining

retrieving

web-based, low-threshold, public

personally meaningful

dormant or social

chronological

running titles, links to own posts

categories and tags

primarily on-going

location-based browsing

search

patterns

working on a dissertation

thingsthat do not fitparked in atrusted external repository

everydayinteractivegrounded theory

fragmented bitsshitty first draftsmanageable chunksreal audience

working on a dissertation

weblog as a knowledge base

scale and conditions

papers in one’s officeholding patternprimitive languagecontextual cuesdemonstrable output

networked researchlearning from personal traces

Lilia Efimova (aka Mathemagenic)

Slides and linksblog.mathemagenic.com/2009/06/30/ht09

PhD stufficeberg.novay.nlblog.mathemagenic.com/phd/dissertation