On Collaborative Weblogs

fernand0 writes "The 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism has dealt with some blogging issues (see the Symposium Research Papers). One that can be of interest for Slashdot readers is When the Audience is the Producer: The Art of the Collaborative Weblog (pdf). There, four collective weblogs are examined: MetaFilter, Plastic, Kuro5hin, and Slashdot, and some discussion is done about the different ways of collaboration that emerge from these sites."

Did we really need a link to slashdot in the story

[IchBinDasWalross]

I mean, seriously folks, that's just stupid.

Oh dear

[panurge]

If too many people read this paper and the nice things it says about Slashdot, we will be overwhelmed by aspirational would-be techies...fortunately it's been posted on Slashdot, virtually guaranteeing that hardly anyone will actually read it.

Re:Did we really need a link to slashdot in the st

[DoctorDeath]

Not as stupid as the people that actually click on it.

Re:Did we really need a link to slashdot in the st

[Haydn Fenton]

tell me about it, i dont want us to get /.ed!

Re:Did we really need a link to slashdot in the st

[Depili]

Maybe it's just a attempt to slashdot slashdot

Re:Did we really need a link to slashdot in the st

[Have Blue]

Well now at least one link in the article won't get /.ed.

Yeah, cool idea, post a link to slashdot!

[alephdelta]

You fool, you have slashdotted Slashdot [slashdot.org]!

/. First

[Ebon Praetor]

This may quite possibly be the first time that all the readers have read at least one of the linked articles in the story. Maybe the editors should link back to /. more often.

So that's why

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

his is both not as bad and much worse on Slashdot. It's not as bad because there's more diversity of opinion here, but it's much worse because Slashdot's "moderation" system makes it possible for unpopular opinions to be literally silenced, pushing them down below the threshold of visibility.

my comments are always modded -1, Troll. I thought that they contained no relevant discussion value, but it turns out that I'm a genius and it's just some mean people on /. modding down my opinion becuase i'm in the minority.

Too bad nobody will read this, becasue it will be modded down and all.

Re:Did we really need a link to slashdot in the st

[McDutchie]

I mean, seriously folks, that's just stupid.

Not to mention dangerous! Who knows what kind of freaky loops the recursive Slashdot effect can get us into... it may cause warps in the time/space curve, or something!

Uh-oh! We have a groupthinker here!

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously, you have never thought anything outside of the official Slashdot groupthink. If you do you will be modded down accordingly, even if it is insightful and informative.

The first rule of Slashdot groupthink is: DO NOT TALK ABOUT SLASHDOT GROUPTHINK!

Ironicly, Slashdot groupthink has an effect not unlike that of the Upper Party's control on society in 1984, a system that Slashdotters claim to be fighting against!

Don't forget user adjustments to mods.

[solios]

Yeah, there's the occasional really interesting /. comment that gets nuked off of the face of the earth- but all too frequently, there's an assload of repetetive and redundant comments that get modded up.... and damned near all of the "Funny" posts are just NOT funny. At all.

I love the fact I can twiddle my user prefs to smack a -5 on "Funny" mods and a +3 on "redundant". It's not perfect, but it kicks a hell of a lot more ass than the k5 mod system, imo.