Information Research Weblog

I got a nasty shock tonight when I tried to resume my analysis of the way Weblogs were linking to my paper on knowledge management. I re-ran my search, which had previously revealed about 110 links and this time Google reported no pages! And this was when I used the search for a URL feature in the Advanced search. When I ran the same url in the ordinary search box it came up with 34 links. What's going on here? Does Google drop Weblogs after a certain period of time, or is it only searching on the current pages and dropping the archives?

The helpful folk at Macrobyte have helped with my problem of allowing members to contribute to the log. I have created a small group consisting of people who have been contributing to IR-DISCUSS and this group will find, when they log on, that the 'New Message' box appears at the top of the log - this enables you to post directly into the log.

Anyone else who would like to be able to do this, rather than just read the log can e-mail me - using the New Message link on the Nav bar and I will pick up the mail at the Message Center.

Happy Weblogging!

Tom

Managed to get a look at the Guardian's 'Online' section with my lunch and, lo and behold! the front page article is about businesses becoming interested in Weblogs - not only as information management devices within the firm, but to produce commercial 'blogs'. Those without a daily delivery of the newspaper can find the item at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,884658,00.html

Some interesting links: http://www.buzzmachine.com/

http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/

http://writetheweb.com/Members/gilest/old/123 - this one still believes in knowledge management :-)

and, of course, the Guardian's own Weblog is worth a look: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/0,6798,517233,00.html

Tom

Well done Tom.

One thing about Conversant is it's slightly different from other blogging tools in that it isn't easy for contributors to build a network round it.

I hope you enoy the experience of keeping a weblog. You could always consider keeping a personal one to get the full experience!

Yours

Euan