Here’s a handy statistic from a Nielsen//NetRatings study about blogosphere stuff: 11% of the people who read blogs use feeds to gather and manage content. In contrast, the survey goes on to report 66% of respondents admit not knowing what RSS is. noticed on the ResourceShelf
"NEWSPLAN SCOTLAND, an ambitious campaign to preserve almost 4 million pages of Scotland’s endangered historic newspapers from the period 1700-1950, led by the National Library of Scotland (NLS), has now been completed." from the ResourceShelf Addendum 9/1: LISNews mentions this project, too.
I started reading this piece feeling great relief that I’m not the only person who gets hopelessly lost in bookstores and has a difficult time finding specific items. Marylaine Block expounds on why she finds looking for books in a book store problematic and how libraries and bookstores can learn from each other regarding the [...]
Hooray!
Sololib had a discussion about people’s experience with aggregators and finding feeds. As I drafted my response, I realized I say these things a lot, so I thought I’d blog a version of what I wrote. My words will be familiar to those of you who have suffered sat through any of my introduction to [...]
UCLA’s Department of Information Studies and the international preservation research group InterPARES hope news librarians will spare about an hour of their time to complete a survey regarding best practices and long-term issues of digital news archives. From an e-mail to Newslib: "By taking the survey, you will: Help assess the potential threats to invaluable [...]
Garrett points to RSS4Lib, a blog hosted by Tufts University exploring how libraries use feeds. He also mentions the article The Power of the Blog in The Scientist.
Jessamyn reports on an interesting auction to support the First Amendment Project, a group focusing on protecting and promoting First Amendment rights. Bidders compete to have a name of their choice included in a forthcoming book by several well-known authors. (Wow. I haven’t posted to this category in /months/!)
A group of bloggers is gathering in Manhattan on Thursday, September 15, at 7 pm at a restaurant to be determined. I actually considered going down were it not a Thursday. It could be fun. noticed on gapingvoid
Hugh writes about the challenge with getting businesses to adopt blogging when there aren’t many case studies about the practice. I’ve been discussing this with other bloggers lately as some of us ponder blog software for intranets. Many of us know who the big public blog software companies are. Who’s providing software for intranets or [...]