[-empyre-] introducing Anne Helmond and Kazys Varnelis

[Green Jo-Anne]

Hi Kazys,

This issue of people getting comments on their own blogs makes me  
wonder if this occurs because people "know" you and feel comfortable  
being in your particular "space"? That is, do bloggers gradually  
build a community around them that more or less guarantees that they  
will get a response to almost anything they post?

I've noticed that we've had no trouble amassing a group of over 920  
individuals on Facebook for Networked. People clearly want to be  
affiliated with the project there. I wonder if the sociability of  
that platform might lend itself more readily to the project as a  
whole? People already have their friends and groups, the sort of  
community a blogger might develop over time.

Anne said she thinks blogs are more conversational than wikis.  
Perhaps Networked needs to be a "community" before people are willing  
to converse with one another?

What do people think about the social networking feature built into  
the Networked site (BuddyPress)? Are you (authors and readers)  
willing to invite people you know to join? Do you think that building  
a community on the site itself would result in a greater willingness  
to comment/revise/translate?

Warm Regards,
Jo

On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Kazys Varnelis wrote:

> Regarding Eduardo's comments aboutn the perseverance of authorship and
> its continued importance in an academic milieu, it seems to me that
> when deeper responses happen, they happen on sites owned by the  
> authors.
>
> Here's an everyday example that turns thorny when I look at it.
> Recently I responded to a piece by another author, but I did it on my
> site rather than his and a heated discussion about the original piece
> and my response ensued on my site.
>
> Did I hijack his intellectual work? Perhaps it would have been fairer
> to respond on the other author's site? But then wouldn't responding to
> him on his site not undermine him by failing to introduce his post to
> my readership, which was probably unfamiliar with it? I'm not sure.
>
> Years ago, I suspended my blog for a short time because I had become
> frustrated with its monological quality. After RSS, spam-free
> commenting, and pingbacks became widespread, I brought it back.
>
> Maybe we're at a similar point now, where the atomization of the Web
> into sites is hurting our ability to build dialogic conversations?
>
> Perhaps we need to break down the divisions between sites further?
> Maybe we need something along the lines of Disqus, only intrinsic to
> the Web rather than proprietary?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Kazys
>
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