Elin Sjursen writes in a comment to Making a Difference: "Very interesting! Are you making Sigmund available so we can run this on our own blogs as well?" Well, let us first check what Sigmund says about Elin's blog (posts from 2004) in relation to others in the community. Unique frequent terms for Elin are:
arm, bathroom, bus, clothes, cry, dress, ear, escape, fat, fill, floor, foot, green, hurry, intern, mum, nod, norwegian, orange, purr, quiet, ring, silence, silly, sir orange flaggytail, stare, tail, teen, tekka, tinderbox, whisper.
Colours and body parts, and Sir Orange Flaggytail must be a cat. Sigmund advices to go into therapy :-). Elin's Visual Settlements map is shown on the right.
More seriously now. At this moment I'm writing a paper on part of the weblog research we have done over the past half year or so. Lilia is one of the authors. And if she would not be on holiday, I'm pretty sure we would all enjoy another Writer's Block post. I don't have writer's block very often, but suffer from something that may even be more serious: Software Release Block. Now that we (my colleagues actually) diagnosed the problem, the cure should not be too far away.
Lilia has written a very nice report on "supporting weblog research'' (not sure whether it is public) partly based on internal discussions on what a weblog research platform might look like. The platform is now called BlogTrace and it includes Sigmund, Visual Settlements and several other features that are minimally needed if one wants to do serious weblog research. The recent CACM special issue on weblog research only scratched the issue IMHO. Perhaps, BlogTrace is also interesting for the casual blogger.
So, my priorities are simple: (1) Finish the paper and (2) Get a community for BlogTrace going. The first might cause some problems, the second is sheer fun (if you are not too critical :-)).
Wow - thank you! Maybe advisor Sigmund should be my therapist, then...
I hope your software release block isn't too overwhelming:-)
Elin
Posted by: Elin | January 20, 2005 at 08:59 PM