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I haven’t write in english in a while, but I promise, I will keep on doing it one of these days. Maybe after the holidays, in August.
Meanwhile if you understand portuguese, you can read my last portuguese posts:
BloggerView #19 Ricardo Bernardo
After a small break, this week BloggerView is with Ricardo Bernardo, the author of “zone41” and “NaWeb2: um olhar português“. I had the pleasure to meet Ricardo at Covilhã, at the “2.º Encontro de weblogs“. I think he is one of the more interesting Portuguese bloggers. Please enjoy his answers.
1. When did you start blogging? What were the main reasons that take you start blogging?
Ricardo Bernado (R.B.): I started blogging on the January 2004. The mains reasons were to keep myself updated on technology. Then I started to blog about events or just facts or even personal opinions.
2. What were your reasons to christen your blogs as you did?
R.B.: First I needed to create a domain for several things and as I have a special feeling for the number 41, the blog got christened also as zone41. Since the beginning the only thing that changed together with the templates was the blog description. Currently is titled memory extension, because for many things it really is my memory extension.
3. Do you have any specific goals or objectives you want to achieve with your blog? What are they?
R.B.: No, just continue to express my opinions, talk about some issues important to me.
4. In your opinion, what role could blogs play in the future, for instance at companies or at schools?
R.B.: For the companies a blog could be a way of communication with the costumers. Actually some companies are already using this tool, achieving new markets and pleasing costumers. Anyway there is a long way to get there, for example, the last episodes with DELL. They decide to use ubuntu distro on their new machines by suggestion of their own costumers, who vote that decision on a DELL’s social software website.
5. What do you think will be the future of blogs over the next couple of years?
R.B.: The blogs will continue to be more and more the people voice on the web.
6. How many feeds do you have on your news aggregator? What news aggregator do you use? Why?
R.B.: I have more than 1000 feeds subscribed in different categories. I use google reader or liferea according to the situation. I use the Greader because it is web based and I have there the most important feeds. The liferea I use it just in my notebook and there I have all the feeds.
7. What do you think about RSS? What role do you think RSS can play in future, for instance in the relation between government and citizens?
R.B.: The RSS is a great tool to notify people in an easy way.
8. What do you think is the most important thing happening in the Web, now? Why?
R.B.: Somehow power to the people. The companies can not have the control on what is written about them, and the same for the governments, as it was in the past.
9. Beside blogs, do use other social software, like Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg, LinkedIn, Twitter or any other?
R.B.: I use all those services, and I give a special attention to the Twitter as it is the most recent.
10. Do you think, in the future, we could have pro-bloggers in Portugal?
R.B.: Yes, we already have a few examples. The question is that they are not getting the digits as some pro-bloggers outside Portugal. In the end of last year i was invited for be part of a Portuguese blogs network, TubaraoEsquilo.pt, maybe its a beginning.
Previous BloggerViews:
BloggerView #1: Rui Carmo
BloggerView #2: Nuno Leitão
BloggerView #3: Pedro Custódio
BloggerView #4: Carlos Jorge Andrade
BloggerView #5: Pedro Melo
BloggerView #6: Mónica André
BloggerView #7: André Ribeirinho
BloggerView #8: Beverly Trayner
BloggerView #9: Jose Luis Orihuela
BloggerView #10: Laurent Haug
BloggerView #11: Martin Roell
BloggerView #12: Stowe Boyd
BloggerView #13: Stephanie Booth
BloggerView #14: Dannie Jost
BloggerView #15: Suw Charman
BloggerView #16: Euan Semple
BloggerView #17: Tara Hunt
BloggerView #18: Henriette Weber Andersen
BloggerView #16 Euan Semple
After a two weeks break, my next BloggerView is with Euan Semple, the author of “The Obvious?“, available at http://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/. Euan Semple, that was one of the speakers of SHiFT, last September, “has four years of unparalleled experience learning how to make the most effective use of blogs, wikis, forums and other social networking tools, in a large corporate environment.” Please enjoy his answers.
1. When did you start blogging? What were the main reasons that take you start blogging?
Euan Semple (E.S.): I started blogging in 2001 and it was really just because I had heard about it, thought it looked interesting and wanted to find out more about it.
2. What were your reasons to christen your blog as you did?
E.S.: I wanted to call it “Stating The Obvious” because it was me overcoming my reticence about stating the obvious but someone had that title already so I shortened it. The question mark was to suggest that it is just me chucking ideas out to see what people make of them.
3. Do you have any specific goals or objectives you want to achieve with your blog? What are they?
E.S.: No, I still don’t, I just like having somewhere to chuck interesting stuff and trigger conversations.
4. In your opinion, what role could blogs play in the future, for instance at companies or at schools?
E.S.: Given that spreading the word about social computing is now how I make my living I am pretty passionate about the potential of blogs in all sorts of environments. They various uses are too many to go into in detail here but suffice to say anywhere where people are engaged in doing something and would benefit from better communication between each other would benefit from blogs - and so that means pretty much anywhere!
I recently wrote a blog post about blogs in education, as a tool for teachers, and I firmly believe that this simple technology has the potential to revolutionise all sorts of bureaucracy burdened activities.
http://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/2006/10/the_madness_of_.html
5. What do you think will be the future of blogs over the next couple of years?
E.S.: They are already becoming much more mainstream and the demand for understanding them in business is clearly increasing. They will probably morph and change into other tools with other names but I believe the basic principle will remain the same.
6. How many feeds do you have on your news aggregator? What news aggregator do you use? Why?
E.S.: I have around 250 and I use Google Reader because I can get to it wherever I have a browser and it works really well.
7. What do you think about RSS? What role do you think RSS can play in future, for instance in the relation between government and citizens?
E.S.: I think RSS is the killer app. It is what makes the increase in communication a benefit and not a burden. Certainly anyone needing to stay across patterns of opinion and comment can do so much more readily than before and this will affect businesses as well as governments.
8. What do you think is the most important thing happening in the Web, now? Why?
E.S.: I think managing identity is getting bigger and will affect more and more people in ways they don’t really yet appreciate. This can be as basic as remembering that Google doesn’t forget. I think it will actually make people more accountable and thoughtful about what they say and why.
9. Beside blogs, do use other social software, like Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg, LinkedIn, Jaiku or any other?
E.S.: Yep -all of the above.
10. What do you think will be the near future of social software inside organizations?
E.S.: Increasingly rosy and lots of work for me!
Next week:
Previous BloggerViews:
BloggerView #1: Rui Carmo
BloggerView #2: Nuno Leitão
BloggerView #3: Pedro Custódio
BloggerView #4: Carlos Jorge Andrade
BloggerView #5: Pedro Melo
BloggerView #6: Mónica André
BloggerView #7: André Ribeirinho
BloggerView #8: Beverly Trayner
BloggerView #9: Jose Luis Orihuela
BloggerView #10: Laurent Haug
BloggerView #11: Martin Röll
BloggerView #12 Stowe Boyd
BloggerView #13: Stephanie Booth
BloggerView #14 Dannie Jost
BloggerView #15 Suw Charman
BloggerView #12 Stowe Boyd
I have the pleasure to start the BloggerView series of this year (yes, it’s true I’m going to continue this initiative this year) with the BloggerView of Stowe Boyd, a well know blogger, author of /Message. Stowe can be introduced as an opinion leader focused on social software. He was present at SHiFT, in Lisbon, last September, (he is a huge fan of Portugal) where he did an excellent presentation, called “We make our tools and they shape us“. I hope you enjoy their answers. Thanks Stowe.
1. When did you start blogging? What were the main reasons that take you start blogging?
Stowe Boyd (S.B.): 1999, and I was trying to create an ‘e-zine’ to get my thoughts online and join the online conversation.
2. What were your reasons to christen your blog as you did?
S.B.: My first blog was ‘Message from Edge City’ — my hosting company went out of business, so I lost all the content. Then I started ‘Timing’ on Typepad, moved to ‘Get Real’ at Corante using Movable Type. I launched ‘/Message’ in January, after leaving Corante, sort of returning to the theme of my initial blog.
3. Do you have any specific goals or objectives you want to achieve with your blog? What are they?
S.B.: I am trying to change the world. If the web doesn’t save us, we are sunk.
4. In your opinion, what role could blogs play in the future, for instance at companies or at schools?
S.B.: Everything will be socialized in the future.
5. What do you think will be the future of blogs over the next couple of years?
(S.B.): They will percolate into everything, changing everything they touch.
6. How many feeds do you have on your news aggregator? What news aggregator do you use? Why?
S.B.: I hate RSS readers but I am using Feed Crier, a ‘bot that runs inside IM. I am tracking like 150 blogs.
7. What do you think about RSS? What role do you think RSS can play in future, for instance in the relation between government and citizens?
S.B.: RSS alone isn’t enough. See various posts on Nerdvana for a better explanation.
8. What do you think is the most important thing happening in the Web, now? Why?
S.B.: Social appplications. Most fun, best reason to go online: meet interesting people.
9. Beside blogs, do use other social software, like Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg, LinkedIn, Jaiku or any other?
S.B.: Yes. flickr, del.icio.us, plazes, twitter, Jaiku. Not LinkedIn, Not Digg.
10. What are your big expectations for 2007, for the web?? What do you think we could expect from 2007?
S.B.: Battle for the living room will be definitively won by Apple with some new gizmo. Someone will build and release a Nerdvana application, and social traffic will become the MySpace/social networking killer. Personal memetracking will become commonplace.
Previous BloggerViews:
BloggerView #1: Rui Carmo
BloggerView #2: Nuno Leitão
BloggerView #3: Pedro Custódio
BloggerView #4: Carlos Jorge Andrade
BloggerView #5: Pedro Melo
BloggerView #6: Mónica André
BloggerView #7: André Ribeirinho
BloggerView #8: Beverly Trayner
BloggerView #9: Jose Luis Orihuela
BloggerView #10: Laurent Haug
BloggerView #11: Martin Röll
Happy New Year
On the last couple of weeks I made a few changes on this blog. Some of my portuguese friends had being complaining about my english posts. I understand their sorrow, they just don’t want to read in english. However, I want to keep writting in english about some topics and speccially I want to keep on with the BloggerViews. So, I’ve decided to transform this blog into bilingue (portuguese and english).
From this moment on, if you use a modern browser, like Firefox or Safari, when you enter this blog you will be redirected to your language blog. For instance, if use a english version of Firefox, you will be redirected to the english blog. However you can visit the portuguese version by clicking on the portuguese flag.
At the same time, you have at your disposal 3 different RSS Feeds:
- Portuguese version
- English version
- Full version
By the way, André has a great a post about blogging in english versus blogging in portuguese.
Last but not least, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year with all the best.
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