Comments on: Unlocking Read-Write Culture

By: TCHe

TCHe — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:18:15 +0000

Spot on! I prefer to read over writing actual comments even though I love to tell everyone how social media has enabled everyone to communicate everyone. Now, as communication is a two-way process â€¦ I'll start with my three favorite blogs (and this is actually pretty hard). Me being a security policy guy, most of it focusses on this topic. So sorry for the list being a little bit one-sided. No particular oder: Wired's DangerRoomA must (in my world). Ubiwar. Similar focus as mine (when I've finally finished my research proposal) and therefore very valuable to me. CT Lab. Smart. Useful. Great online symposia. What else need I say? There're many more, AbuMuqawama, The Small Wars Blog, Registan â€¦ However, Violetta's right. So much information â€“ probably too much! To be honest, I've resorted more or less to skimming my NYT/Washington Post/NZZ RSS feeds already. In fact, I was planning to blog again but I just don't have the time.

By: TCHe

TCHe — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Spot on! I prefer to read over writing actual comments even though I love to tell everyone how social media has enabled everyone to communicate everyone. Now, as communication is a two-way process … I'll start with my three favorite blogs (and this is actually pretty hard). Me being a security policy guy, most of it focusses on this topic. So sorry for the list being a little bit one-sided. No particular oder: Wired's DangerRoomA must (in my world). Ubiwar. Similar focus as mine (when I've finally finished my research proposal) and therefore very valuable to me. CT Lab. Smart. Useful. Great online symposia. What else need I say? There're many more, AbuMuqawama, The Small Wars Blog, Registan … However, Violetta's right. So much information – probably too much! To be honest, I've resorted more or less to skimming my NYT/Washington Post/NZZ RSS feeds already. In fact, I was planning to blog again but I just don't have the time.

By: Violetta

Violetta — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:00:25 +0000

The blogosphere is the realm of abundance: too many things to follow, not enough time to do this. I wonder if this abundance is forcing us to transfer the habit of reading into the habit of skimming…
I follow (not surprisingly) blogs of Larry Lessig, Chris Anderson etc. However, the majority of blogs I read daily are in Russian, on livejournal.com. I have started blogging there more than 4 years ago. The Russian blogosphere has changed a lot. Now there are dozens of the so-called “tisjachneki” – bloggers with more than a thousand readers, however, none of them seems really worth reading to me. Observing all these developments, I am thinking that it makes more sense to start blogging in English and on an international/or my own platform. But: finishing my thesis comes first!

By: Violetta

Violetta — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:00:00 +0000

By: Sebastian Haselbeck

Sebastian Haselbeck — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:13:08 +0000

Three excellent blogs to follow are for example Mark Thoma’s Ecomomist’s view ( http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/ ), the blog following Google’s way to world domination at Google Operating System ( http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/ ) and thirdly following such excellent blogs as Bagdad Bureau and DOT EARTH at http://www.nytimes.com/ref/topnews/blog-index.html

By: Sebastian Haselbeck

Sebastian Haselbeck — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:13:00 +0000