I've been totally grooving on Will Richardson's posts lately, in part because we often seem to be mulling over the same ideas and concepts at the same time. He's been blogging more about The Active Web (I'm more partial to his reference to Jonathan Schwartz's term "The Participation Age"), and I've been shaping a new presentation for libraries called "How to Join the Online Conversation."

All of this applies to trade journals, too, so I was happy to read the following from Will today:

"Amy Bowllan, who I met at Mohonk last fall, gets my vote for Rookie of the Year so far this year. She's really gone, shall we say, "blog wild" over at "Teaching in the 21st Century" to the point where just recently she even got her mother to start blogging. And the big news is that she just landed a gig as a blogger for the School Library Journal. How cool is that?"

Sweet! But you have the same question that I do, right? Hellllllooooooooooo, Library Journal? Paging Library Journal! Please come to the front desk and get your bloggers up and running!