The General Paper Blog

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The General Paper Blog

• Hoe Gim Yau

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• hoe.gimyau_at_moe.edu.sg
• http//generalpaper.wordpress.com

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Overview

• History of the General Paper blog
• Features
• Challenges and issues
• Possibilities
• Your comments and questions

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Some history

• First post 8 March 2006
• 190 posts so far
• 19 April 2006 Mr Miyagi (miyagi.sg)
• 4 April 2007The Most Blog-Friendly Junior
  College of Singapore Bjorn Lee

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Features

• Web log repository, archive, a shared notebook
• Publicly accessible
• Design elements - ease of use, creating content
• Visually appealing, multimedia, diverse content
• Web-native content
• Part of an ecosystem, the Blogosphere

Chwee Bocks
Gee Pee!
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Challenges and issues

• Nuisances, comment spam, liability maintenance
• Staying alive sustainability, ownership

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Possibilities

• Contributions and co-authorship (control)
• Students work
• Commercialisation
• Paperless GP?

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Questions? Comments?
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Bibliography

• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, October 17, 2005
  Weblog Usability The Top Ten Design Mistakes
• http//www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html
• WordPress.com - Features
• http//wordpress.com/features/
• Bloggers Moderators liable for blog comments
• http//www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_news/2005_9_1_lia
  ble_blog_comments.htm
• With 15.5 Million Active Blogs, New Technorati
  Data Shows that Blogging Growth Seems to be
  Peaking - Heather Green
• http//www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspottin
  g/archives/2007/04/blogging_growth.html