Comments on: The Value, Not So Hidden, of Blogging http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:37:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Seth’s blog » Blog Archive » The Softer Side of Blogs http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-88001 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:57:16 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-88001 [...] The Value, Not So Hidden, of Blogging [...] […] The Value, Not So Hidden, of Blogging […]

]]> by: knackeredhack http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-87299 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:19:47 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-87299 Seth, connecting this to your post about Golden Handcuffs, the more people blog and blog well, the less we look at the press. But when you hear people in the press talk about blogs, they'll often focus on the bad ones or the outright eccentric, rather than understand the sheer volume of content now available, and so much of it good fun, from people in whom we learn we can actually put our trust. For instance, this blog and Andrew Gelman's represent that for me in spades in the areas of the blogosphere where I hang out. With blogging, my own experience suggests that it takes time to feel comfortable and enjoy it, and that it might not suit everyone. But that might have more to do with my being a journalist, steeped in the caution of the news agency ethos. I came across the expression "curating a blog" the other day, and it seems to me it fits rather well, particularly as it was applied for students in the context of preparing them for employment. Seth, connecting this to your post about Golden Handcuffs, the more people blog and blog well, the less we look at the press. But when you hear people in the press talk about blogs, they’ll often focus on the bad ones or the outright eccentric, rather than understand the sheer volume of content now available, and so much of it good fun, from people in whom we learn we can actually put our trust. For instance, this blog and Andrew Gelman’s represent that for me in spades in the areas of the blogosphere where I hang out.

With blogging, my own experience suggests that it takes time to feel comfortable and enjoy it, and that it might not suit everyone. But that might have more to do with my being a journalist, steeped in the caution of the news agency ethos.

I came across the expression “curating a blog” the other day, and it seems to me it fits rather well, particularly as it was applied for students in the context of preparing them for employment.

]]> by: katya http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-87049 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:30:55 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-87049 One could set up a blog similarity rating machine using Latent Semantic Analysis. LSA does similarity ratings based on co-occurrence of words between (and within) multiple texts. The only hard part (programatically, from my perspective as a linguist rather than a web coder) would be crawling the blogosphere for the appropriate texts. Then you'd have a list of keywords that you could use in a way similar to how the del.icio.us tags were used above. You could also get a rating of how internally consistent a blog was, e.g. whether the next post was more likely to be on the same topic as the last 10 posts, on a different but related topic, or on a completely irrelevant topic. One could set up a blog similarity rating machine using Latent Semantic Analysis. LSA does similarity ratings based on co-occurrence of words between (and within) multiple texts. The only hard part (programatically, from my perspective as a linguist rather than a web coder) would be crawling the blogosphere for the appropriate texts. Then you’d have a list of keywords that you could use in a way similar to how the del.icio.us tags were used above. You could also get a rating of how internally consistent a blog was, e.g. whether the next post was more likely to be on the same topic as the last 10 posts, on a different but related topic, or on a completely irrelevant topic.

]]> by: seth http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-87004 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:20:18 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-87004 Thanks, David Thanks, David

]]> by: Evolutionary sequence « Entertaining Research http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-86853 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:16:05 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-86853 [...] Evolutionary sequence According to Seth, is: 1. Facial expressions and vocalizations. [...] […] Evolutionary sequence According to Seth, is: 1. Facial expressions and vocalizations. […]

]]> by: david http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-86823 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:10:57 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/12/09/the-value-not-so-hidden-of-blogging/#comment-86823 That should be possible. For music, there are sites like http://www.last.fm where you have your mp3 player log the music you listen to. Since it collects listening habit data from lots of people, it can tell you what people who like the music you like also like (or you can just type in an artist and it will show you what other people who like that artist like). For bookmarking, there are social bookmarking sites that also collect the bookmarks and folksonomy tags for lots of people, but the focus there is more on the tag-to-bookmark relationship rather than on figuring out what sites are similar. Still, you might be able to figure something out. On del.icio.us, 19 people have tagged your blog using tags like " blog diet food health psychology science statistics weightloss": http://del.icio.us/url/fbf301d0377f949dc10848f957fa3cba If I search delicious for exactly those terms, I don't get much: http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=blog++diet++food++health++psychology++science++statistics++weightloss&type=all But if I search for fewer terms, I get: http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=blog+science+health+diet+psychology&type=all Explore that 2nd link and you should find sites that are similar to yours. David That should be possible. For music, there are sites like http://www.last.fm where you have your mp3 player log the music you listen to. Since it collects listening habit data from lots of people, it can tell you what people who like the music you like also like (or you can just type in an artist and it will show you what other people who like that artist like).

For bookmarking, there are social bookmarking sites that also collect the bookmarks and folksonomy tags for lots of people, but the focus there is more on the tag-to-bookmark relationship rather than on figuring out what sites are similar. Still, you might be able to figure something out. On del.icio.us, 19 people have tagged your blog using tags like ” blog diet food health psychology science statistics weightloss”: http://del.icio.us/url/fbf301d0377f949dc10848f957fa3cba

If I search delicious for exactly those terms, I don’t get much: http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=blog++diet++food++health++psychology++science++statistics++weightloss&type=all

But if I search for fewer terms, I get: http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=blog+science+health+diet+psychology&type=all

Explore that 2nd link and you should find sites that are similar to yours.

David

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