October 2004 Archives

So if the real issue in creating a blogosphere is creating a community, what is the role of technology? I think you have to consider two things:

1. Technologies that help connect people.
2. Technologies that help people get “information” value out of the blogosphere.

The two overlap, but they are not the same. Believe it or not, it's possible to get adequate solutions for both components for free or almost free, but you have to do some work. I think of this as the make side of the technology make or buy decision.

A blogosphere is more than a blog. It is a collection of blogs that form a community, and creating a blogosphere is a lot about creating a community.

I've been blogging away over on Blogonaut trying to keep up with the BIT320 Blogosphere. We've hit the stage of the term where all it seems like I do is work just to keep up.

We've made some changes to the blogosphere. Specifically, we have a snapshot view of the most recent four days worth of posts. That really seemed a requirement. I have a few ideas about what we would do differently next time.