Rowland Institute Library Blog

A group of climate scientists contribute to RealClimate, a blog that
aims to provide context to discussions of climate science as
represented in the media. (Source; Nature)

Written to warn bloggers, this list of eight copyright myths applies to
any kind of online information use and stresses the need not to assume
that a work can be freely reused. (source; beSpacific)

“”Blog” is the Word of the Year, dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster said Tuesday.” – Techweb (via Yahoo news)

(Harvard users follow this link.)  
Includes Bonnie Nardi et al “Why we blog,” Rebecca Blood on software,
Cass Sunstein on democracy, and others.  (Source: Mathemagenic)

Hats off to Sabrina Pacifici for her comprehensive presentation on
corporate blogs, featuring exhaustive lists of the benefits of blogging
and several interesting examples of organizations using blogs. 
(Source: beSpacific)

Greg Hill has contempt for blogs, and while his point about their
unreliability may have some merit in some cases, he doesn’t mention any
specific sites but provides a caricature.  Wikipedia doesn’t
impress him either, but maybe if Hill provided some examples of
erroneous wiki passages, his piece might be a little more
convincing.  (Source: blogwithoutalibrary)

Christina
pointed me to Tangled Bank, a group blog effort that appears to be
hosted by a different site each week.  It contains a selection of
articles from blogs dealing with biology, medicine or natural
history. 

A .pdf of my presentation on the Rowland Institute Library Blog, given
at the SLA Boston Chapter workshop on blogs and feeds, has been
posted.  Other presentations from that day include j Baumgart’s overview on blogs and feeds and Josh Ain’s talk on multiple uses of blogs.  Shimon Rura gave a demo of the blog cum content management system Frassle.  j took extensive notes.  Walt Howe took photos of the event.

This article considers blogs from the viewpoint of preserving digital
ephemera.  Are they worth preserving and what practices are in
place?  (Source: Current Cites)

Among other benefits, this two-part article points out the ease of
frequent weblog publishing, blogs’ usefulness for ongoing projects, and
the potential for one to generate information authority on a particular
topic. (thanks to Steven Cohen, Library Stuff)