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Blog Papers

01:55 EST | Web logs have grown dramatically in popularity over the past couple of years. These `home pages' are usually called `Blogs' and they are of many different types, ranging from rather Diary-like descriptions of various people's lives, through political discussions and technological reports and musings, all the way to quite artful presentations of sounds, images and all kinds of writing.

Review: Building with Blogs

(draft) Emmanuel Decarie wrote a review in March 2003 of an article by David Searls and David Sifry. The original article appeared in the Linux Journal. This review is on the Web at this location

Since the original article has not yet appeared on the Web, it is difficult, in some cases, to make any indirect comment on the remarks in the review. When the original article becomes available, it will either be incorporated into this note or will be critiqued in a separate, but related, document.

Blogs become key tools for developers

(draft) This paper by Becker discussed the fact that bogs are becoming tools for developers. Whether they are key tools or not still remains to be seen. This is from an article in ZDNet News by David Becker and it appeared on 31 January 2003.

What's in a Blog?

There are not only lots of blogs on the Web, there are many different types of Blogs. These types fall into several convenient categories and this paper discusses some of them, along with some general commentary about their scope and quality.


Blog Papers

Review: Building with Blogs
12 Mar 2003 A Commentary on a Review of Searls and Sifry's paper about `Building with Blogs'.
Blogs become key tools for developers
12 Mar 2003 A Commentary on a discussion of Blogs as tools for developers.
What's in a Blog?
9 feb 2003 This paper attempts to describe some of the characteristics of the different kinds of Blogs (Web Logs) that are found on the Net. There are several different types of Blogs, and they have wide variation in quality, ranging from awful to quite good.

About Mind/Matter

* mind/matter started in 1963 as SONAMCO. Most of the principals have been, at various times, members of the faculty of MIT's Sloan School or of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. After several stages of evolution and corporate spin-offs it has become mind/matter.