Blogging thoughts

Abstract

This paper is about the use of weblogs in research. We are both re- searchers of online games, texts and culture, and most of our material is Researching ICTs in Context gathered online. A lot of our research is done online. Unsurprisingly, we came across weblogs when surfing the net. Discovering how simple Blogger makes blogging, we started our own weblogs. Jill Walker started jill/txt in October 2000, and Torill Mortensen started Thinking with my fingers not long after. The weblogs were originally used as a way to keep our focus while online, serving as constant little reminders of the real topics we were supposed to write about. They soon developed beyond be- ing digital ethnographers' journals and into a hybrid between journal, aca- demic publishing, storage space for links and site for academic discourse. (pp. 249-250)