Andy Roberts - The Noisy Idiot Dilemma
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Andy Roberts - The Noisy Idiot Dilemma
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June 30 2009, 5:55pm | Comments »
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I posted to andyrobertsmusic.wordpress.com
April Wrap-Up
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/april-wrap-up-2/
In April we introduced Instant Findability, TED video embeds, a springtime theme, a cool new domain, and reply-by-email for comments, now open to all. A pretty busy month, with more awesome features on the way, plus WordCamp San Francisco, on May 30. If you’re in town or want a reason to be, be sure to register soon. We’ve got a great speaker line-up, free WordPress schwag to give away, and, of course, a BBQ lunch. Here are the stats for April:
370,053 blogs were created. 401,320 new users joined. 5,206,156 file uploads. 3,050 gigabytes of new files. 775 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters. 8,691,962 comments. 6,991,335 logins. 1,162,296,607 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,130,311,791 on self-hosted blogs (2,292,608,398 total across all WordPress blogs we track). 1,904,262 active blogs and 19,665,407 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor. 1,569,961,240 words.
Other cool stuff: After tallying the community vote, the judges panel (Derek Powazek, Matt Thomas, and myself) selected two winning designs for the I <3 Blogging design contest. You can now buy “Dandy(lion) Blogging” by el_square and “I Love Blogging (and Pixel Art)” by Robert Podgórski in the Infectious store as vinyl stickers for your laptop, iPod or iPhone. Congrats to the winners and all who submitted their work. Though we released comment reply via email late in the month (April 23), you’re already making great use of it. 1,029 replies to comments via email just in the final week.
Video uploads using the WordPress player are on the rise, too: 5,290 in April. If you haven’t already checked it out, head to WordPress.tv to see what your videos could look like in the WordPress player (and to learn a bit, too). If you like what you see, you can purchase the Space Upgrade to get uploading. We launched BuddyPress 1.0, a collection of plugins that transform a vanilla WordPress MU install into a social network. WIRED.com migrated its blogs to WordPress, and Intruders.tv relaunched their channels using WordPress MU. WordCamp Central was redesigned, and now has an awesome map that displays WordCamps around the world. There were six WordCamps in April: WordCamp China, WordCamp Hong Kong, WordCamp NOLA, WordCamp Tokyo, WordCamp Nigeria, and WordCamp Reno-Tahoe. Coming up in May: WordCamp Toronto, WordCamp Richmond, WordCamp Mid-Atlantic, WordCamp Columbus, WordCamp Ed CUNY, WordCamp Milan, and WordCamp San Francisco.May 8 2009, 8:55pm | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
UK Online Communities
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2009/05/03/uk-online-communities
The wiki called WorkNets has a project collating a list of UK Online Communities. UKOnlineCommunities, WorkNets. A culture for independent thinkers.
The list is young and obviously has huge gaps, as well as probably many entries which are listed more out of optomism than evidence of community, but it’s going to be well worth watching and contributing to.
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May 3 2009, 4:09am | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
How Not To Use Online Communities
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2008/12/07/how-not-to-use-online-communities
I’ve just read a message on the ukcider community email list which warrants a response on the meta level about how online communities can be a fantastic resource for research and tapping into a multitude of volunteer information and advice, but only when approached in the right way. Journalists are usually the worst culprits, depending on the domain, and PHD candidates can be a bit single minded too, but anybody could fall into a similar trap and end up disappointed so I’ll try to provide an explanation of how to communicate with online communities and how not to do it. First the quote: I joined this newsgroup because i have an interest in making cider … and I have found the advice gained very useful. ..the other reason for joining is that I have just completed a book about cider (I am a photographer) When I first joined, two years ago, I posted on here, explaining that I was doing a book and wondered if anyone could help (with suggestions for good people to visit and shoot)…. I was looking for interesting producers, pubs, orchards etc all over the country. I didn’t receive a single reply from anyone on this group to that message and had to do all my own research. The key is to think of an online community as an ongoing conversation. It isn’t just a noticeboard where you can put up a post card for passers by. So you need to ease yourself in gradually, rather than with a fanfare and grand announcement. After a brief introductory post, you may receive a welcome or two, or you may be completely ignored. That’s a random and normal response so there’s no point in getting offended. A group of people is incapable collectively of being “rude” by not responding to any particular individual, and people naturally are more inclined to reply to others that they have already got to know to some extent. So don’t get downhearted in the first few days (or weeks depending on the pace) after joining a new community. Keep on joining in occasional conversations whenever you have something useful to say and after a period people will begin to notice you. Then when they do start to reply it will be as if to somebody they have already been talking to, because they have. Unfortunately though, some people just never seem to get this, and they continue to try and turn every group conversation into a 1-to-1, often appending the suggestion to reply off-list as well, which can be interpreted as somewhat selfish. Should you expect an online community to go away and do all your research for you just because you have deigned to post a request? Most people would not have such expectations but from time to time, such is the good nature of people in general, it will actually happen, and stories about how easily online communities can be mined, picked, deployed and harvested add fuel to the reputation. As the ‘owner’ of a lively googlegroup I even get people trying to save themselves the bother of even joining, hoping I will ask their research questions for them and then pass on all the answers. If they come from a print media or broadcasting background they often demand a telephone interview, thinking that simply dropping their phone number into an email is enough to drive information and resources in their direction.
Posted by Andy Roberts How Not To Use Online Communities
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December 7 2008, 10:31am | Comments »
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