I want it on the record that I /finally/ got to a library with a subscription to The American Archivist to photocopy the article about blogging that was in the spring and summer issue: Diaries, Online Diaries and the Future Loss to Archives; or, Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers Who Blog Them by Catherine O’Sullivan. [...]
Orkut, a social network tool, e-mailed to tell me someone created a scrapbook entry for me. It’s my first scrapbook entry. I didn’t recognize the guy’s name, so I was horribly curious. The entry is about a product he’s marketing. Well, I guess that’s what networks are for, right?
Why can I not remember that Blogacatmas is the first Friday of October?
One of my fabulous news librarian colleagues posted this resource to Newslib. Newsmap shows the popularity of news items through tree maps. The site includes news for a few countries besides America, common news categories, and different days and times.
From their about page:
"Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the [...]
There’s lots of talk on some discussion lists about this Christian Science Monitor editorial by Robert Johnson, Rhodes College’s vice president for information services. He states his belief that libraries that ditch books are foolish while acknowledging that libraries are more than just buildings holding books.
There’s way too much space at my upcoming talk in Madison, Wisconsin. If you know nothing about feeds or if you think you know everything about feeds, you’ll probably (hopefully) learn something. It’s not going to be another introduction to blogs and feeds. I’m going to focus strictly on feeds and some of the neat [...]
On Friday, November 4, NELINET, a New England library cooperative, is hosting a seminar on blogs, wikis, feeds, and wireless technologies. Registration costs from $140 to members to $230 for nonmembers.
I’m supposedly going to talk about RSS in libraries. I wonder if I can slip some Atom in there, too, or if I’m only supposed [...]
This Associated Press article discusses Yahoo!’s inclusion of weblogs in their news site. Results come from about 6500 selected blogs and are displayed in a box on the right separating them from results from media outlets.
The article claims Google News doesn’t include blogs. I used to receive results from blogs when I used that search [...]
In his Wall Street Journal column Real Time, Jason Fry examines Google’s Google Print project, mentions the current copyright concerns, and reminds us that the people behind Google have ambition.
(I can’t even think about the word ‘ambition’ anymore without thinking about pythons that try to eat alligators. Good thing that python went after a small [...]
"’Writing is a big part of my life and blogging enables a writer to have practically instant gratification and feedback. I love it. I only cut down on my time spent on blogging because the wedding was so much work — with my job, the wedding, and my blog, it was obvious which had to [...]