Found: a list of Canberra blogs
Posted on April 14, 2009 by by jr
The fundamental problem with the current crop of social networking tools such as Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook and all the similar ilk is being able to effectively pull gems of useful truly material (signal) from the underlying background chatter (noise). In reality the signal to noise ratio is actually quite poor unless you are actually looking to know what people had for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
I am very judicious with regard to whom I choose to follow on Twitter. Rather than following a horde of individuals I have a personal preference to search and filter the specific topics and subjects. For this task my weapon of choice is Tweetdeck (a platform independent Twitter API application running in an Adobe Air environment). Naturally there are a scores of other downloadable tools and online/web resources available that can also perform similar tasks, but using many disparate tools tends to dilute the overall effectiveness. I’m also investigating whether Yahoo Pipes will be able to assist in collating aggregating, filtering, sorting and reporting on the multitude of social network information sources I scan instead in order to perform most of the “heavy lifting”.
However I digress… One useful nugget I came across this evening was from Twitter user @facibus who appears to be attempting to catalogue “Canberra blogs” that are owned or written by people that live in and around Canberra. I thought this would be worth sharing. His list can be found on the Canberra Blog Community website.
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Thanks J for the links and also for the Canberra Blog’s page. I believe Andrew Boyd runs the site, Andrew is a well known Canberra based Information Architect who is also part of the group organising the Australia 2009 UX workshops, which I also mentioned a few months ago here
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The last blog entry was in December 2007 … L
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It is the actual list of sites that is fresh and being added to according to recent tweets. As for the blog on the site itself… meh!
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I notice the riotact is a blog… is it?
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That depends on your definition of a blog. At its core, it has a series of entries (blog posts) that are commented on (comments), so it is – strictly speaking – a blog. So is Typeboard
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shame i can’t see the aurelius blog – it is locked??
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The meaning of what a blog is has changed a lot “blogging” but usually one of the main features of a blog is to give the user the option to comment on a post or article.
So Typeboard would be a type of blog although it is a citizen journalism, community journalism and collaborative journalism type of website
So if we think of blogs that way, then news sites are also blogs “they just want us to think they aren’t blogging they are telling us the news”, just don’t tell them I told you that
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I believe it’s an old blog, Peter. No longer in existence. L
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