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Blogging is a form of online communication related to, yet distinct from, other online media such as instant messaging, chat, email, and newsgroups. Our informants selected among and switched between different communication media. They also re-used content from one medium in other media, such as cutting text from a blog to send in an email. Creating ways to facilitate this selecting and switching of media for specific messages, i.e., providing an integrated palette of communication tools, will facilitate the use of blogging with other media. For example, it might be useful to provide toolbar icons to allow switching between blogging, email, and IM.
Informants' interest in re-purposing text also suggests the value of integrating document editing tools, such as spell-checking and enhanced formatting and editing features, with blogging applications. Xanga Premium has some of these editing features; most others do not. A related issue concerns document management, especially attaching a document file to a blog post, as in email, or importing and exporting document files. This issue came home to the authors when we tried to share extensive sets of field notes via our class blog. The notes were created as Word documents on our personal computers, and we tended to share them as files attached to group emails, rather than through blogging. This was more convenient than uploading files to webservers and posting the URLs; especially since some of us did not have easy access to webservers and so could not upload files to the Web. Trying to post the contents of each file would be a particularly unwieldy process, making the posts—and blog—difficult to read and comprehend.
The ability to easily include photographs in blogs was of strong interest to many in our study, especially those blogging to "document my life." Many informants included at least some photos in their blogs, or expressed interest in doing so. Several had blogs devoted largely to photos with captions or brief textual descriptions. The prototypical photoblogs are “baby blogs” and “travel blogs,” reminiscent in form and function to a photo-album. Michael attached a large collection of photos with captions—a “photoblog”—to his personal webpage, showing pictures of his son. Alan had a private blog of photos of his children for friends and family only. Katie, and for a time, Harriet, struggled with maintaining and synchronizing two “document my life” blogs, one text-only and the other photos with captions. Each had a digital camera and a Web server, and had tried various methods to manage the ever-increasing number of photos. They attempted to use independently-purchased software (e.g., Trellix) and customized scripts written in Perl or Java. None of these solutions was especially satisfying. Informants even asked us for tips on tools to aid them in them in managing photos!
Helping people deal with digital photos is currently a major challenge for the human-computer interaction community New “photoware” products are emerging (e.g., Adobe's Photoshop Album) to aid the still-cumbersome process of digital photo management. Adding the requirement of working on the Web as well as on one’s home computer compounds the problem and the need for better solutions. As of this writing, Blogger permits free posting of one low-resolution picture; a fee is required for more photos, since they must be stored on the Blogger server.
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