Archive for the 'Blogs' Category
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
April 6th, 2008New York Times - “I haven’t died yet,” said Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, a popular technology blog. The site has brought in millions in advertising revenue, but there has been a hefty cost. Mr. Arrington says he has gained 30 pounds in the last three years, developed a severe sleeping disorder [...]
Corporate employee blogs: Lawsuits waiting to happen?
March 26th, 2008CNET - “A recent libel lawsuit filed against Cisco Systems over one of its employees’ personal blogs could spur companies, many of which have encouraged workers to share their writings publicly, to reconsider how much latitude to give them.”
Blog vs. Peer Review Update: Interactivity Brings Some Surprises
March 15th, 2008Chronicle.com - “For the past several weeks, the scholar has posted a section of his draft each day to a popular blog he contributes to — called Grand Text Auto — and he has invited readers to praise it or tear it to shreds. They’ve done both. And by early next week, Mr. Wardrip-Fruin will [...]
Cover It Live
January 13th, 2008Maybe we should all try out Cover It Live at CIL. Looks interesting (via)
Blog Takes Failed Marriage Into Fight Over Free Speech
January 10th, 2008New York Times - “[T]he court has ordered the husband to stop posting blog items about his wife and their crumbled marriage, possibly turning an ordinary divorce into a much broader battle over free speech on the Internet.”
Nominate Your Favorite Blogs For LISNews 10 Blogs To Read in 2008
December 27th, 2007Let’s have the debate again. My favorite part is when the winners fail to thank those that vote for them. Let’s see if that happens this year…
Happy 10th “Weblog”
December 17th, 2007The word is celebrating it’s birthday.
Top 10 Blogging Cities
December 16th, 2007Social Media has a list, culled from Nielsen.
Google Adds Blogs to Universal Search
December 13th, 2007E-Week - “Starting this week or next, queries on the leading search engine will return links to blogs alongside the images, news, books, local maps and video, Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, told eWEEK in a briefing at the company’s headquarters here.”
It’s about time.
More on Blog Ads
December 6th, 2007Rob Crumpler - “[H]ow come advertising on blogs is so dirt cheap?”
On Library Blogging
November 28th, 2007Sophie Brookover on Why We Blog. Great piece.
.Gov Libraries
November 27th, 2007Gov Gab (A new to me blog - subscribed!!) talks about the benefits of libraries (via)
Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband
November 24th, 2007Hannibal Travis - “This Article argues that digital media such as the broadband Internet, the World Wide Web, and the blogosphere should be at least as free as the press was at the time that the First Amendment was ratified in 1791″
FARQs?
November 15th, 2007Emily Clasper - “With the proliferation of library blogs, I’m always surprised to see how few libraries blog their reference questions… especially the common ones”
A FARQ is a Frequently Asked Reference Question. This is a wonderful idea and one that I have advocate for a long time. Go Emily!
Conference Blogging
October 23rd, 2007J - “Blogging at a library conference is a great way to avoid going outside and seeing exciting new places.”
Life Changing Blogs
October 15th, 2007Eugene Volokh - “Has Reading Blogs Changed Your Life?”
For me, they have, both for better and for worse.
Conference Blogs
October 9th, 2007T. Scott - “I remember that just a few years ago, having a blog as part of the pre-conference preparations was a new and radical experiment, and they’re still not as common as I might expect.”
Government Blogging
October 8th, 2007AP lists a few of them.
More on Surveys
October 1st, 2007Hey AL. - I’m proud to be on the same list as you. I just hope you don’t think I’m boring.
Question for Library School Professors
September 26th, 2007For those that assign a blog as a requirement for a course, do you give the students the option to not have the blog publicly available for all to read? If not, do you tell them how to set it up so that it isn’t?
Does this question make sense? Sorry, I’m running on [...]
Dissertation Completed
September 23rd, 2007Leslie Crang - “After constantly talking about my dissertation entitled Blogging and its impact on libraries and librarians I have published it here on my personal website.”
Congrats!
Career Blogs
September 14th, 2007A “new-to-me” term, and Jason Eiseman thinks that my blog is a good example of one. Sounds good to me.
New To Me Librar* Blog
September 10th, 2007Lifelong Access Libraries Blog - ‘”Lifelong Access Libraries is a national initiative aimed at causing fundamental change in how public libraries define, create, and deliver their services to active older adults, a segment of the population that is growing rapidly across the nation. We’ve created this blog to encourage discussion and collaboration among the library [...]
Dewey & Main
August 17th, 2007New (to me) Librar* Blog - “Embracing the L words: library and local. This blog explores the relationship between the two.The Internet is localizing and becoming more aware of places (neighborhoods, communities, towns, cities and so on). In fact, to mis-quote a local business owner of some renown, local may be as red hot as [...]
Blogs and Law School Rankings
August 16th, 2007Conglomerate - “[T]he main thrust of the article is that blogs “represent a cost effective mechanism for improving a law school’s reputational rankings and, perforce, its overall rankings in the infamous US News and World Report.” (via)
-Name Your Blog
August 10th, 2007Michael Weiss - “What follows are a few mild observations and modest suggestions based on a frightening amount of Web trawling.” (via)
Bookslut gets a mention.
Blog is Not a Word
August 10th, 2007Ellen Goodman - “It’s worth remembering that the blogosphere is still so new it baffles spell check.” (via)
Lots of Library Blogs
August 9th, 2007Walt Crawford - “The second Cites & Insights Book will appear Real Soon Now: A survey of current English-language public library blogs, mostly consisting of profiles of the blogs themselves.”
252 of them, to be exact. Wow!!
Worldcat Identities
February 18th, 2007Tim O’Reilly on Worldcat Identities:
"A lot of people think that there’s a single big identity play out there, and focus on technology solutions, but it seems to me that in true bottom-up internet style, we may eventually build our online identities out of a mashup of all the tracks we already leave in cyberspace. (Seth [...]