Weblogs, Personal Publishing Tools and Self-Organizing Communities
 

COM 310: New Media
Michael J. Yacavone

Notes and links for a lecture presented at Colby-Sawyer College in March 2001.

• The human voice (Subjectivity is a virtue)
  http://www.cluetrain.com/

• Multiple perspectives (Summarizing the news)
  http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backIssues/2001/03/19

• Thought leadership (Projecting yourself into the world)
  http://doc.weblogs.com/
  http://www.paulandrews.com/stories/storyReader$122
  http://scobleizer.manilasites.com/
  http://glennf.weblogs.com/
  

Personal Publishing Tools

• Blogger (Free web-based tool)
  http://www.blogger.com/

• Radio Userland (Free Windows and Mac desktop tool)
  http://radio.userland.com/

• Greymatter (Free weblog / community software)
  http://noahgrey.com/greysoft/

Self-Organizing Communities

• Kuro5hin.org (Users prioritize the topics)
  http://www.kuro5hin.org/

• Scoop (Free software that runs K5)
  http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/

The New Traditional Publishing

• O'reilly.com (Books and conferences)
  http://www.oreilly.com/

• O'reilly.net (Weblogs and community)
  http://www.oreillynet.com/

• Safari@O'reilly.com (Monthly subscriptions to full-text books)
  http://safari.oreilly.com/