Anne Galloway do «Purse Lip Square Jaw» - o blogue de investigação que já aqui mencionei - comentou o Socio[B]logue levantando algumas questões quanto aos limites da utilização dos blogues como instrumentos de pesquisa. Vale a pena ler o que diz com atenção, na medida em que apresenta algumas limitações técnicas associadas aos blogues (que ainda não tinha visto exploradas na blogosfera), mencionando outras ferramentas de potencial interesse, designadamente wikis, twikis, blikis ou plone [consultar os websites http://www.snipsnap.org/, http://www.wiki.org/ e http://www.wikipedia.org/].
"Since João Nogueira's very interesting Socio[B]logue showed up in my referrer logs, I have been thinking about the use of weblogs for research purposes. Like PLSJ, his blog serves as a type of field diary: "Observaçoes, Reflexoes e Interrogaçoes Sociologicas." And I would agree with him that the possibilities for blogging in social research remain underexplored. But I think that there are a few technical features built into common weblog applications that limit exploration, connection, expression and communication - all of which are integral to research. For example, Blogger doesn't offer the ability to organise posts into categories like Movable Type, but even so, that type of archiving does nothing to connect posts across boundaries. I'm with Ted Nelson on this one, we are prisoners of our applications and hypertext was originally conceived as something much more flexible and beautiful. Blogs make it difficult to understand connections that are not based on discrete categories, and I also fail to see the ability of temporally linear posting to forge new connections. And so I am going to experiment. Inspired by Kurzweil- never thought I'd say that! - when I have some free time next month, I plan to install The Brain here, and have it act as a means of connecting posts to each other, and to outside pages. We'll just have to see how it works..."
Enfim, parece haver um mundo por explorar - parafraseando Huxley, um admirável mundo novo - no que respeita à utilização de inovações tecnológicas como ferramentas de trabalho. Obrigado Anne.
Publicado por socioblogue em junho 23, 2003 11:07 PM