I read some notes from other people about the Librarianesque Session today (linked below). A recurring theme was that the session only raised issues; it didn’t necessarily offer any solutions to some of the problems bloggers face. The authors seemed a little disappointed that they didn’t walk out of the session with concrete answers. This [...]
The Librarianesque Session notes are finished, as is the blogroll (pending additions from others). I also tossed my brief notes for Blogging in Academia up and my jottings during the Blogging as a Business session, which I will probably flesh out when I’m more awake. I guess I didn’t take notes during the Visions from [...]
Making Money with Weblogs Jeff Jarvis Saturday, April 17, 2004 BloggerCon wiki Jeff’s site, Buzz Machine [aside: SR shared a great comic about making money from blogs a little while ago.] Advertising on Blogs Blog Ads Ads on blogs could reach $20-$30,000/month on popular blogs. Google Adsense: cut and paste the code and let the [...]
A public librarian’s letter to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition’s series The Search Engine Wars (which I completely missed because I haven’t listened to NPR in a while) aired this morning. She suggests that librarians can solve people’s problems with search engines: we can help people without forcing anyone to look at ads and we [...]
These notes are for the BloggerCon session Librarians I moderated on Saturday, April 17, 2004. What follows are points in no particular order. I’ve combined some of the discussion with related themes. I hoped to get through my tape of the session tonight, but I just don’t have the energy to do it. I will [...]