%0 Conference Paper %1 efimova2009weblog %A Efimova, Lilia %B HT '09: Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia %C New York, NY, USA %D 2009 %I ACM %K autoethnography electronic fp101 fullPaper ht2009 information management notebooks personal weblogs writing %T Weblog as a Personal Thinking Space %X While weblogs have been conceptualised as personal thinking spaces since their early days, those uses have not been studied in detail. The purpose of this paper is to explore how a weblog can contribute to the process of developing ideas in a long-term complex project. To do so I use autoethnography to reconstruct my personal blogging practices in relation to developing PhD ideas from two perspectives. I first discuss my practices of using a weblog as a personal information management tool and then analyse its uses at different stages in the process of working on a PhD dissertation: dealing with fuzzy insights, sense-making and turning ideas into a dissertation text. The findings illustrate that next to supporting thinking in a way private notebooks do, a weblog might serve similar roles as papers on one's office desk: dealing with emerging insights and difficult to categorise ideas, while at the same time creating opportunities for accidental feedback and impressing those who drop by.

@inproceedings{efimova2009weblog, abstract = {While weblogs have been conceptualised as personal thinking spaces since their early days, those uses have not been studied in detail. The purpose of this paper is to explore how a weblog can contribute to the process of developing ideas in a long-term complex project. To do so I use autoethnography to reconstruct my personal blogging practices in relation to developing PhD ideas from two perspectives. I first discuss my practices of using a weblog as a personal information management tool and then analyse its uses at different stages in the process of working on a PhD dissertation: dealing with fuzzy insights, sense-making and turning ideas into a dissertation text. The findings illustrate that next to supporting thinking in a way private notebooks do, a weblog might serve similar roles as papers on one's office desk: dealing with emerging insights and difficult to categorise ideas, while at the same time creating opportunities for accidental feedback and impressing those who drop by.}, added-at = {2009-06-16T15:00:02.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Efimova, Lilia}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2366603a85a1bef14ca0540ab66d8bd05/ht09}, booktitle = {HT '09: Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia}, interhash = {1958e18d3d3b6a24c3fb106f3f6ce679}, intrahash = {366603a85a1bef14ca0540ab66d8bd05}, keywords = {autoethnography electronic fp101 fullPaper ht2009 information management notebooks personal weblogs writing}, month = {July}, paperid = {fp101}, publisher = {ACM}, session = {Full Paper}, timestamp = {2009-06-16T15:00:05.000+0200}, title = {Weblog as a Personal Thinking Space}, year = 2009 }