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Young Canadians in a Wired World

Phase II of Young Canadians in a Wired World came out last week (”the most comprehensive and wide-ranging study of its kind in Canada”). The study “looks at the online behaviours, attitudes, and opinions of more than 5,200 children and youth from grades 4 to 11, in French and English language schools, in every province [...]

Blogtalk Downunder

Blogtalk Downunder, a conference about all things bloggy, took place in Sydney, Australia last week. Many of the papers that were delivered are available for download right off the site. Here are the papers I’m interested in & will probably have something to say about here once I’m through reading them:

Blogging as an Effective [...]

good OCLC reporting

Just put down OCLC’s report Content, Not Containers (pdf here). It’s a really good look at the changing information landscape, particularly the way information is no longer dependent upon the format of delivery, and how this is something that should be on the radar of every library and librarian. This passage called RSS [...]

library leads the campus blog effort

Not strictly a “blog with library” story but I thought it was interesting that at the University of Minnesota, the campus library seems to be leading the campus blogging movement. Neat. Here’s the White Paper for some background info on the project.

the blogging iceberg

This survey on blogs and blogging gave me pause. I blame the research methods and statistics classes I took in library school for ruining me for reading such things. What struck me most was that two of the most popular blog management tools, Blogger and Movable Type, were not included in the survey.