Jenny Levine: Blogging

Two Great Models for Library Blogs

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:54:14 GMT

LIS Blogsource continues to catch great links to library blogs. From today's batch:

Sellers Library Teens - " 'As a summer experiment, we have decided to try a group blog by the teens and librarians at Upper Darby Sellers Library. You can blog about anything related to our library: events you attend, great ideas for future events, materials we have, materials you think we should have, or whatever. You can even comment on the posts of others. (Please, no rude comments or inappropriate posts, or they will be removed.) Get your voice heard at the library!' (ATOM feed)"

* This may be the first library blog I've seen that is publicly accessible and has opened comments to the...ahem...public!

"And it seems that the Ohio University Libraries are sold on the blog concept, currently offering four different options:

Reference Blog (ATOM feed)
Business Blog (ATOM feed)
News (ATOM feed)
Systems Status (ATOM feed)"

* That last one is a perfect use of a blog, one that I've argued for at SLS.

Say Cheese @ Your Library

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 05:01:34 GMT

Here's a picture blog from a public library: Pictures from the San Marino Public Library (ATOM feed). [via LIS Blogsource] An interesting use of blogging....

To Be Added to the Blogging Presentation

Fri, 21 May 2004 04:17:59 GMT

Technorati: Charting Blogdom's Rise

"Sifry mentioned that Technorati started out on Thanksgiving weekend 2002 as an effort to find out "who was talking about me" in the blogosphere. Since then, it has begun charting an increasing number of blogs -- an average of:

- 3,000 a day in January 2003
- 4,000 a day by that March
- 6,000 a day by June 2003
- 8,000-9,000 new blogs a day by September 2003
- 10,000 at the end of 2003
- 11,000 to 12,000 new blogs a day today.

That's pretty incredible, and it adds up to 2.4 million total blogs that Technorati is monitoring. Not all are active. Of that number, about 45 percent have not been updated in the past three months. And he points out that 2.4 million blogs does not equate to 2.4 million bloggers, because many bloggers have multiple blogs." [JD's New Media Musings]

It would be interesting to know how many of those are by librarians and how many are for libraries.

Blog Breakdown and New PLA ePub on Blogging!

Thu, 20 May 2004 16:35:16 GMT

Check out this great Blog Software Breakdown! I will definitely be looking at this closely as I examine our options at SLS.

In other news, the Public Library Association (PLA) has posted an ePublication about weblogs written by none other than our very own Steven M. Cohen! I just know Steven will have them blogging with RSS feeds soon! Go, PLA!

Fri, 14 May 2004 04:04:20 GMT

PERSONAL publishing alternatives? [scriptygoddess.com]

Tue, 11 May 2004 04:51:25 GMT

Pushing the Blogging Envelope. Dave Pollard has put together a list of 20 qualities that blogging power users might like their software to be able to do. My goodness, if we ever get to the point where all of that can be done easily... [Weblogg-ed News]

Mon, 10 May 2004 04:10:46 GMT

More Quickies.

Still busy as beans, but here are some more links that came across my aggregator within the past few days:

1) Blogging Overview (via Kalsey)

2) Blogs Counter Political Plottings - "Social networking, online community activism and blogs have started a "revolution of the ants," and it's spreading beyond the Net. That was the assessment of panelists last week at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, who spoke about the political activism of online communities. The Web has been particularly effective in engaging politically apathetic people and motivating them to take politics back to the grass-roots level." (via Topix)

3) "Imunch is an RSS/Atom news aggregator, (tabbed) web browser and weblog authoring tool, all rolled into a single seamless interface. Currently supports dasBlog, Movable Type, Userland Radio and Blogger." (via Scoble Comments)

4) "PSIGate has recently added RSS feeds for the new records they add to their collection. There are feeds for each subject (astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, policy and materials), plus a feed if you want to keep up with the latest additions regardless of subject." (via Catalogablog) [Library Stuff]

Wed, 05 May 2004 03:26:54 GMT

Drip Drip. So, (blogging) Roller is now deployed at Sun and people are using it. Something to pay attention to. [rc3.org Daily]

Sat, 03 Apr 2004 23:58:30 GMT

Distance Education Services at Atkins Library.

Distance Education Services at Atkins Library - "Resources, services, updates, news, and events for Distance Education Library Services at J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Created and maintained by Lisa T Nickel, Distance Education Librarian at J. Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte." (ATOM feed)

[LIS Blogsource]

Wed, 31 Mar 2004 04:30:23 GMT

blogs in the media (Liz Lawley).

Over on Crooked Timber, Eszter Hargittai has posted an updated graph showing use of the words “weblog” and “blog” in English-language daily newspapers.

“Weblog” outpaces “blog” in 2003, 687 to 389; that’s a big change—in scale as well as preferred term—from 2002, where the respective numbers were 270 and 274.

[Many-to-Many]