So, every so often, I think about getting blogcards, especially those with gapingvoid comics. But the problem with that is that I might have to choose which one I’d like on the card. There are too many good ones. This one is now under my consideration:
"It’s all about thriving in markets that are smarter and [...]
gapingvoid explores how financially supporting bloggers can change the blogger-reader relationship with a conversation snippet. That’s not to say people shouldn’t financially support bloggers. It’s a caution that bloggers and readers should be aware of how their relationship might change when money enters the picture.
Note: Some people might find the language in the cartoon a [...]
Speaking of the Friday Five, The Redhead is back in the blogosphere with her new blog Very Well Red–a fabulous and quite fitting name.
I’ve missed you, Redhead. It’s been way too long.
Those of you who have been reading the scratchpad or blogging on Harvard’s server for two to three years might remember the now defunct global stats and rankings pages some of us used to watch. Many of us have been hoping we could find a similar ranking tool for our blogs or some other measure [...]
The Motley Fool, an entity known for financial wisdom, discusses Wal-Mart’s use of bloggers for public relations following some negative press about the practice and how some bloggers potentially and perhaps intentionally misled some of their readers by not disclosing they were blogging for the retail giant. The Fool’s article has some great links and [...]
Steven Cohen is working on a meme about 10-15 sources librarians read and encouraging us to post them in usable formats, like with OPML. He lists his recommendations, which, he notes, could change at any point in time.
I am surprised that I am only familiar with four of the ten sources he lists and even [...]
One of the concepts Cory Doctorow discussed during his recent presentation at Harvard is how developers often create products that lock users in so leaving is very difficult, if not impossible. At dim sum with the bloggers today, we talked a little bit about how it seems that blog platforms still don’t have easy ways [...]
Over at Library Stuff, Steven writes about the importance of having contact information on blogs. As well as the need for people contacting us bloggers for networking, speaking engagements, and/or news interviews, there are also broken links, grammatical errors, typeos, “Hey, have you seen this? You should blog it.”, and more. I’m not ready to [...]
It’s probably no coincidence that this blog seems to get hit with comment spam near and during holidays. I stayed offline Monday as a treat to myself for President’s Day. Tuning in Tuesday morning, I find 30-something comment spams. Not a lot by any means, but enough to be annoying. I don’t want to have [...]