In the 5.1 issue of JoDI (May 2004), K. Andrew Edmonds, James Blustein and Don Turnbull reflect on blogging's influence on the future of discourse and information management and retrieval:
"Our mission in this work is to synchronize the progress made in the Weblog world with longstanding hypertext research and provide an understanding of how the Weblogging phenomenon could be taken forward to truly represent, if not advance, general hypertext functionality as envisioned by its originators, including Bush, Nelson and Engelbart."
and
"In the common-use hypertext of the future, the world will bear some marked similarities to the current world of Weblogging. People will use hypertext structures to manage their personal information, be it in the form of diaries, platforms for political campaigns, records of research projects (akin to laboratory notebooks), Web clippings (schraefel and Zhu 2001), or networked photo scrapbooks that can then be shared with others and open to collaboration with others. Services will help interested people connect with one another through citation tracking, update monitoring, transclusion and aggregation, and social networking."
plog, personal log server
that was a great link... i was a bit dissappointed that the authors focused so much on blogs... but that my be more of a reflection on their experience. (i was thinking about how we use a variety of software and networked 'spaces' beyond just blogs).
when i read their vision "of a universal information management system built on extending the traditional hypertext framework... to structure, search and share personal information, as well as to participate in shared discussion" i instantly thought they must be talking about something like plogs (as in Personal Log Server)... http://plogdev.wiki.taoriver.net/
That PLog tool collects your interactions in one space so people can see 'what you're up to'...
It's interesting to see how... so many minds think alike, and will probably work toward similiar goals simultaneously; because afterall, now is the right time to do it.
Plogs
I thought plog meant program log. ?
plog meaning
i'm not sure 'who' was first, but i heard of PLog, as in personal log long before I saw that article at CIO (which you linked to in another post) talking about plogs as project logs... so i dunno.
i got perturbed (in a humourous way!) and elaborated on this topic, if you care to read more about it...
plog word usurped and more about plog
Plog on Wikipedia
Guess what? No one has created an entry for 'Plog' at Wikipedia! Guess this could be your chance, Heather, to officially define the term as Personal Log. :-)
Of course, I may come around later and change it all to Project Log. Heheh. :P