Blog as database – Anne Helmond
Anne Helmond did intensive research on WordPress blogs. She graduated cum laude with a thesis on ‘Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations.’
Watch her interesting presentation in this video.
Anne Helmond – The blog as database from Vileo on Vimeo.
You can find Anne on Twitter and her blog
This is at the first WordCamp in the Netherlands, October 31, 2009.
Video was streamed and recorded by Livecast, Connecting Media added the live powerpoint slides next to the stream and Vileo edited the video’s and made them online available.
You can find the slides at slideshare:
The blog as database
Anne Helmond gaf tijdens de eerste WordCampNL een presentatie over:
“The blog as database. Blogging and the blogosphere through the eyes of software and search engines.”
Programma: Anne Helmond
Anne Helmond is geen onbekende in de Internationale Blog/ WordPress wereld. Ze schreef al eens voor de Blog Herald waar ze een collega schrijfster was van Lorelle VanFossen. Op haar eigen blog schrijft ze ook Engelstalig. Dus grote kans dat ze haar verhaal tijdens Wordcamp NL in het Engels doet.
Anne zal ons meenemen naar de webwereld van zoekmachines en blogplatformen. Ze heeft onderzocht welk verband er bestaat tussen deze 2 zaken. Het blogplatform dat ze voor haar onderzoek gebruikte was WordPress.
Anne’s eigen woorden (natuurlijk in het Engels) over wat ze gaat vertellen in haar middag sessie:
Blogging is often seen as a new form of journalism, an online diary or a democratising medium which potentially gives every citizen a voice. However, what can we say about blogging and the blogosphere if we look at blogs from within the medium? In other words, what is blogging when we look at the software blogs are made with?
Anne Helmond graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a study on WordPress, the leading blog software. This research focuses on how blog software and search engines arose at the same time (1999) and have since established a tight relationship. What does this mean for bloggers, blogs and the blogosphere if we look beyond search engine optimization?
