Academic Weblogging. Quote: “K-Logs are a close fit to the academic culture. Here are ten reasons why.”

Comment: Read also this response from a recent PhD on why weblogs are not a good idea for certain scientific communities. [Serious Instructional Technology]

Julia Lipman schrieb einen Artikel im Flak Magazin zur Userland-Salon-Partnerschaft in Sachen Weblog-Hosting.

Cullen and another Salon blogger, Erik Speckman, recently tried to quantify
the impact of content posted on blogs versus in comments to those blogs.
Front-page posts, Speckman argued, are “first-class content,” and comments
are “second-class content.” In terms of the hierarchical organization of the
typical blog, this is accurate.

ho widmet sich erneut der Debatte Weblogs contra CMS und kommt zu dem Schluss:

Klassische Weblogs machen also Sinn für kleine, flache Unternehmen im Dienstleistungssektor, alle anderen sind mit einem CMS besser bedient. Broadvision, Vignette, Reddot und co. sei jedoch empfohlen, den Zug der Zeit nicht zu verpassen; ich vermute, dass sich z.B.

Corporate Blogs. The growing idea that businesses and other enterprises can benefit from using blogs to categorize relevant external links or contextualize and prioritize their own knowledge stores continues to show up in media such as this (don’t laugh) WorldCom article. [Radio Free Blogistan]