The eclectic librarian is pondering tenure for librarians, as is the discussion on Information Wants to be Free.
Now, I realize the links above are focusing on librarians and not library school faculty, but it got me thinking about LIS faculty. Just the other day, someone in another field told me he chose a college based [...]
beSpacific highlights this pdf whitepaper about the current state of the use of RSS. It includes data on the demographics of feed consumers as well as what kind of content they receive.
(The paper might be using RSS in the broad sense, meaning that it might also include information about other kinds of XML feeds, not [...]
Garrett and I will be speaking Monday (11/14) at noon in the Lamont Forum Room in Lamont Library at Harvard University. Garrett will provide an introduction to blogging. I’ll discuss the intersection between blogging and work and talk about Harvard’s blogging initiative.
Spam blogs are becoming more prevalent. Like spam e-mail, people set up these blogs to promote products, Web sites, etc., etc.
"Because search engines like those of Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. base their rankings of Web sites, in part, on how many other Web sites link to them, the splogs can help artificially [...]