New times are under development for changemod.

Blogging is a productive, thought-provoking experience; but it is also a time consuming experience. To blog does not only mean to write. It also means interacting, reading and participating.

This blog came to life within my Master Thesis and I find it hard to continue writing now that my studies are finished.

This means, that the changemod blog will remain online, but will be updated seldom.

Stay tuned though, because changemod will reinvent itself behind a new facade.

You might have noticed, that lately I don’t post that often as I did some weeks ago. Time runs short. I still surf and find new, interesting stuff, but it is at the moment difficult to daily write extensive posts.

You might have also noticed, that you get in your feed not only the stuff I write, but also the stuff I bookmark in del.icio.us. I try to write a small note for every site I bookmark, so that you can read a short description and see if you’re interested.

Do you like getting my delicious bookmarks in your feed?
Please let me know. If it just gets on your nerves, I’ll deactivate it.

I’ve been working on the new design. Its not ready yet, but I would appreciate some feedback. Here are a couple of screenshots.

Its backbone is the Integral Wordpress theme. But I did quite a few alterations. The major changes of the interface are:

• No more categories, only tags

• Better footer

• More visible subscribe buttons
• I’m still thinking what to do with the top commentators widget. I find it very important (a thank you to you all), but where should I have it?

Anyway, I’ll keep on working on the whole thing. I’ll upload it in about a week or so.

Do you know this feeling, when you daily set up a goal and fail to achieve it? I’m not talking about big lifetime goals, just small stuff.

For example, everyday I try to sit down and work on the new look of the blog; and I just postpone it.

I think the best way to put some pressure on me and this goal is to go public.

So there: During the weekend and the days to come, I’ll start working on a new look for the blog.

I love Mr.Happy’s theme, but I’m the type who likes change.

I think I’ll keep the main structure of the blog (meaning the php theme) and I’ll mainly concentrate on the style (meaning the CSS).

I am also considering applying a theme changer, where the readers can change the look of the blog (which means I want to create more than one style).

For any suggestions or recommendations, improvize - feel free to contact me.

I’m trying to implement a rating system (a wordpress plugin developed by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan), so that you can rate my posts and help me improve the content. It might take me a couple of hours to make it work properly, but bare with me.

I like criticism especially when its constructive, so additional feedback/comments would be appreciated.

You might have noticed that this blog is quite fresh. I just want to say, that it is in my (near)future plans to create my own themes - although I really like this one (thanks to Mr. Happy).

I am planning on making a small collection of themes and giving you the option to change the layout. When you don’t like the theme, you just change it. I’m still working on how exactly to do this, so any tips would be appreciated.

This is an introductory post in a (hopefully and supposedly) series of many. It doesn’t really have an informative character, since it does not contribute in the blogging community. It is simply my exlpanation, why I start this blog and how I hope it will develop.

I’m intrigued with the evolution of the social media these last years and if i were to summarize the subject of my blog, this would be it. Social Media. But this term entails a vast series of studies. Theory of networks, the small world problem (I don’t see it as a problem), the new hyperlinked, collaborative forms of authorship, scaling laws, emergent systems even mass psychology and social representations. This blog’s goal is to contribute to the discourse about all these subjects. I’m not saying that I know my way around with all these subjects, but that’s what blogging is about. Participating in a vast discourse, where everyone contributes one small piece of the puzzle.

See you online.