Blogosphere & group identity

Great para from the unit's reading:

"Within the blogosphere, a certain variety of language has developed, one that rationalizes the
human need to communicate with the constraints of the medium. These weblogs group into
tight social networks that consist of varying degrees of community. Each community is
anchored around a topic, whether it is job-related, research-related, age, gender, etc. Because
of the closeness of the blogging networks, communicative practices can be standardized,
strengthening further the sense of group identity."

This subject intrigues me.

More on blogspeak

Love this subject. Intriguing - is it spoken, written, a combination, is it as Lin asks asynchronous? Conversations can happen in real time, and others can read those conversations days later. The blogosphere is a bit like a very noisy party I think. if you're in the right place at the right time, you'll hear and/or get into some great conversations. You can also feel very alone and as if you're chatting away to yourself .... want to check out http://blogtalk.net/presentations/wagingpeace.pdf if I can find it . Back to archives.

LOL explained

Now I know what it stands for - laughing out loud - from the Blogspeak section as listed in Mod 3 http://www.eng.umu.se/stephanie/web/LanguageBlogs.pdf . Everyone uses it on their posts in the DBs- I was thinking lots of luck, look out love? . I need a blog/internet language dictionary .... just to be 15 years younger would probably have helped however!

Mod 3 - Webspeak

I'm not sure I agree with all the listed written/spoken differences in the way we express ourselves, although there are certainly different forms. Far too often, writing takes on a formality and heaviness that prevents any good communication. Still webspeak is something that really intrigues me - may use it as a concept to investigate further for Ass 1 - are we inventing a new language?

Module 3 - Web History

Researching and reading more, hit the old out of date links. Asked the question on the board and of course got a great response quickly. Have now discovered web archives website .. providing some great messages. The language has changed in step with tech advances eg:

"Your crawler is hitting our servers gtoo hard. Please slow down, it's hurting the service we provide to our customers. Thanks. webmaster@userland.com."

Module 3 - Web History

I had no idea the internet stuff went back such a way or started off that way. And much of it just seems to have evolved rather than with any grand plan - thought as much.

Module 1 Topics for Resource Assignment

Topic One
Human-computer interfaces

Topic Two
Client-server two-way interactions
File transfer protocol remains the best example of how the Internet enables files to be sent to and from clients, at their initiation, thus emphasising the local autonomy of the individual user, and the arrangement of 'cyberspace' into publicly accessible and changeable regions