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David Rothman responds to my post:
"While I disagree with Steve about RSS-based reading being a substitute for the conventional kind, I can somewhat understand another comment of his. He no longer feels so guilty about not having written for publication in five months--because his Library Stuff blog "probably gets more readership than if I would publish an article in a trade journal or magazine." Logical enough. There are faster ways of making money than writing for most journals; and, for better or worse, no editors are around to censor you. What's more, if you're blogging what you really care about, your blog items just might evolve into articles or books in time."
I'll have to agree with David on that last quote. As I have mentioned on LS before, this blog has done more for my professional work than anything else. From writing on here since August 2000, I have written numerous articles, am speaking at many conferences in the upcoming year, and my first book was released this month. All due to taking the time to post to this weblog.
BTW, I checked my book on OCLC this morning. Thanks to all the libraries that are adding it to their professional collections.
Posted by Steven at September 15, 2003 11:12 PM | TrackBackNice reply by Steve. I really like Library Stuff. Plus, he got me to snap to and add RSS in spring '02 to the TeleBlog, which I really should have done earlier. I wish him best of luck with Keeping Current: Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian and Patron Needs and hope that many other books follow--inspired, of course, in part by the good stuff that he finds in his RSS feeds...and books, too, whether The Golem or Stephen King's works.
Posted by: David H. Rothman on September 16, 2003 05:12 AMVery interesting post
Posted by: Fred on November 29, 2003 07:58 AM