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growing the community

ae-j — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:45:36 +0000

I have an embarassment of posts-in-draft to share, but alas, I probably won’t get to them for a few more weeks as this mess of activity keeps me occupied. I did want to pop in to say hello (hello!) and that my LIS course started last week and that we hit the ground running and that all my students have set up their blogs and that they’re blowing me away with their thoughtful and challenging posts! The course blog is here and the student blogs are listed in the sidebar. It’s all out on the open web since one of my goals for the course is for the students to engage in this thriving community we call the library blogosphere (or biblioblogosphere, or liblogland, or whatever we’re calling it these days). So, join me in welcoming 21 bloggers to our community, won’t you? I think they’re going to like it here.

NPR audio piece on bloggers

ae-j — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:21:29 +0000

NPR has an audio clip from Day to Day on bloggers’ influence on the publishing industry, with some soundbytes from Jessa Crispin of Bookslut.

blogging naysayer

ae-j — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:06:01 +0000

I expect this will be making its rounds across the library blogosphere today. Greg Hill, Alaska librarian, doesn’t have a good word to say about bloggers and blogging. That’s just fine, of course, since everyone is entitled to an opinion as well as the right to express it. But there isn’t anything fair and balanced about his take:

Blogs focus on whatever subjects their creators care to expound upon. While some are academically rigorous, most are merely personal rants. When bloggers feel passionately enough about a subject, often themselves, they create and regularly update blogs expressing their views, usually including hyperlinks to other Web pages that confirm their opinions. All it takes is some inexpensive and user-friendly blogging software, strong opinions and time. Actual knowledge is purely optional.

And then there’s the stuff that’s purely erroneous:

Blog owners usually don’t allow their readers to add their own comments, preferring their monologues to others’ dialogues.

[link via blogherald]

jobs and blogs

ae-j — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:55:13 +0000

Good news about your employment future and your blog (for a change): Net diarists blog their way to a job [via j's scratchpad].

Inside the ivory tower

ae-j — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:16:59 +0000

A good article about the blogs-in-academia movement, with soundbites from the usual heavyweights of the field. Nothing new and revolutionary here, it’s just a decent round-up of why academics are blogging, why they aren’t, why they’re introducing blogs to their classrooms, and why it all matters.

15 new bloggers

ae-j — Sat, 01 May 2004 06:13:14 +0000

I gave a little intro-to-blogging talk to some colleagues today and part of the half hour was spent getting everyone to “roll their own” (an idea I blatantly filched from Steven) on blogspot. It’s a good thing to do, I think, especially since it’s so difficult to encapsulate everything a blog is (and does) with a mere definition. So much easier for your audience “get” blogging by, well, blogging!

haunting blogging?

ae-j — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:20:40 +0000

Slightly off-topic, and certainly not one for the bibliography, but I thought I’d mention it anyway: Interviewing: Beware Blogging Blunders. Just stumbled upon it while doing a lit search for something else. The authors deal with blog visibility and how your blog could come back to haunt you in a job application/interview. For those of us who subscribe to the Steven-Cohen-school-of-thought (blogs as professional development), this is not really an issue. Still, worth a read.

even more on conferencing

ae-j — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:37:41 +0000

Some more info on the libraries/librarians & blogs session at BloggerConII from one of the organizers [via librarian.net].

more on conferencing

ae-j — Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:47:36 +0000

If you can’t get enough of this whole blog thing, you might consider attending BloggerCon. Conference attendance is free and this year there is a session on blogs & libraries [link via shifted]. Also, have a look at the list of registrants, it’s like the red carpet of bloggers!