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Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge is now available via RSS. Hopefully, more Harvard publications will follow their example.

The news resourcer at Ifra Newsplex sent the URL for this blog to an e-mail discussion list. Four students from the University of South Carolina and two each from Emerson College and Northeastern University are covering the Democratic National Convention via this moblog–that’s a blog based on mobile phone photos. I think it’s pretty innovative.

Recently, I’ve been hearing or reading a lot about what journalists think of bloggers covering the convention. When I read Michael Feldman’s piece about some high profile people starting blogs and talking about them to the bloggers covering the Democratic National Convention, I had to snicker. Neither knew the URL of their blog or seemed [...]

Technorati has a page culling posts from people writing about politics during the Democratic National Convention. It includes bloggers without DNC credentials as well as those blogging from the convention.
from Liz Donovan’s Miami Herald blog
(This is funny. You know how so many news sources require people to register before viewing articles so they can collect [...]

Of course they do!
This article Weblogs: Do they belong in libraries? has been circulating through some library-related blogs. One part worth noting is how to use them to communicate with local politicians to get more government support for the libraries. Some of the cited articles might be worth a look.

I noticed the Redhead has posted some new rules about comments on her blog. Reading the text of the post and the comments reminded me about a post I’ve been considering for a while about editing, altering, and/or deleting comments on blogs. A survey I took about a week ago had some questions about changing [...]

Here I am thinking “out loud” again. I’m writing an article about news librarians who blog and have posted some interview questions I’m considering asking them. The list is rather a draft right now. What would you like to know about a news librarian who blogs? Do you have any suggestions for my list?

If you’re in the area for the Democratic National Convention and you want to get together, comment below or drop me a line.

Here are some photos from the Special Libraries Association News Division’s Awards Banquet at the SLA 2004 Annual Conference on Monday, June 7.

Cyberjournalist.net, Friday’s feed. I can’t believe it.