June 16, 2004
Weblogs As Social Networking Catalysts
A great summary of why weblogs are critical social networking tools and a bung of valuable reference links. Lilia efimova sums it up in five points:
- Weblogs are online identities of their authors: by reading a weblog we learn about and connect with another person.
- Networking. By reading a weblog a reader gets introduced to a blog author network.
- Weblog networks serve as peer-filtering and recommendation engines: they help interesting ideas travel faster.
- Distributed conversations. Weblog conversations do exist, but they are distributed, difficult to track and different from other technology-mediated conversations.
- Connecting with community. By connecting with several weblogs belonging to a dense weblog network new blogger connects with a community.
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