j's scratchpad

Someone, who supposedly thinks libraries are fun, exciting places, claims that Wikipedia is more exciting than libraries. What do you think?

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, American Library Association’s Office of Information Technology and Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy are organizing the conference Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground on Friday, January 21 and Saturday, January 22. It’s an invitation-only conference, but Webcasts and IRC should be available [...]

I’ve been wondering how Bacon’s is going to select which weblogs to monitor. Someone started a brief discussion about that on Newslib today.
Popularity in the blogosphere is a complicated topic. Many people and sources rank blogs based on the number of readers or subscribers, but that’s not always the best measure of popularity or the [...]

I didn’t realize I need to claim my weblogs in Technorati, too. Maybe one day, I’ll get around to doing that just like I’ll get around to claiming my 18+ feeds in Feedster.

Ombuds[wo]man Christine Chinlund credits Lisa Tuite and the staff of The Boston Globe’s library for analyzing data about corrections that ran in the newspaper in 2004:
"The detailed annual analysis, prepared by Globe library chief Elisabeth Tuite and her staff …"
Chinlund used the data for a column about errors and corrections that provides a look at [...]

Pew Internet & American Life Project examines blogging in this report that’s been kicking around the blogosphere for a week.
I’m impressed with the presentation of the numbers–especially the sharing of data and trends from previous reports. Several of the numbers in the report surprise me: 62% of Internet users don’t know what weblogs are, only [...]