Undercurrent

Bloggtider is a very useful book published in Swedish by Erik Stattin, Lars Våge and Gunnar Nygren, chronicling the evolution of blogging from the beginning to mid-2005. As I was reading it yesterday (only 98 small pages) I wondered what would be the best way to read such a text. Since it’s about blogs, it’s full of interesting references that you would like to look up while reading, but it’s awkward to read a book with one hand and type URLs with the other. So I finished it, and now I have to leaf through it to locate references such as the Blogging, journalism and credibility conference report. Or the important South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog.

A printed book is clearly not a very user-friendly medium for a text like this one. This is a text that should be used, so the best solution I can think of would be to load it into a (wiki-style?) tool where you can make notes and comments in the margins (and all references to web-based material should be linked, of course). Maybe it’s a good prediction that interconnected wikis and blogs will soon be commonplace tools for researchers?

While I’m at it, a couple of other links to digest later:

Nieman Reports: The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It?

We Media

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