Finished reading Audience, Structure and Authority in the Weblog Community by Cameron Marlow quite some time ago, only posting it now.
This article aims at studying the concept of authority among community of webloggers. The findings are based on hyperlinks collected by the Blogdex project. A social network analysis (Wellman 1997) is done to describe the social structure, and the two interesting measures of authority are suggested to be popularity measured by affiliation and influence measured by citation.
The social ties formed by the webloggers community are through means of blogrolls, permalinks, comments and trackbacks. Each mean represents a different type of social reference.
Main study focused on:
Blogroll implying social affiliation
Permalink implying thoughts passed from one individual to another
It is found that having a high blogroll degree rank (which indicates popularity) does not necessary translate into a high permalink degree rank (which indicates level of influence)
Good Luck and All the Best to All!
This afternoon, the long-awaited O-level results are going to be released. Wishing my students best of luck, here’s a lucky clover for all to share 🙂
Blog Software Breakdown (Server-side)
Found this list which author, Owen Winkler, has spent much time and effort putting everything together. You will get a list of comparison for the features and functionalties of the existing server-side blogging software (these software have to be downloaded, installed and run from a server, unlike blogger.com).
Some fields may not be updated, but it is still very informative.
The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time
Interesting article, not sure what will attract you but if we ‘see’ the same things, perhaps we belong to the same generation? 🙂
This is my list:
89. RUBIK’S CUBE, 1974
88. BLACK & DECKER DUSTBUSTER, 1979
78. KORG WT-10 ELECTRONIC TUNER, 1975
75. LASER POINTER, 1980s
51. IROBOT ROOMBA, 2002
46. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SPEAK & SPELL, 1978
31. TREK THUMBDRIVE, 1999
25. NINTENDO GAME BOY, 1989
3. SONY WALKMAN, 1979
What’s yours?
[source: slashdot.org]
Ten CSS tricks you may not know
If you work with cascading style sheet (css) when designing web page, here is 10 ways to improve your coding experience.
1. CSS font shorthand rule
2. Two classes together
3. CSS border default value
4. CSS document for printing
5. Image replacement technique
6. CSS box model hack alternative
7. Centre aligning a block element
8. Vertically aligning with CSS
9. CSS positioning within a container
10. Background colour running to the screen bottom
Do some learning now 🙂
[source: webcredible.co.uk]