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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Pfew! All done publishing the results of the 2007 Survey of the Biblioblosophere! To refresh your memory, here are all of the posts about this year’s survey: 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results from [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results from Various Filters
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Before I lost my Survey Monkey pro account, I created a bunch of results filters and exported them as PDF files. They allow you to see how a group who answered one question a certain way answered all of the questions in the survey. I think they add richness to the results and I’m sure [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007For comparison to the 2005 results (though some questions are new) visit Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors 23. What is the primary way that you read blog content? ResponsePercent ResponseCount I visit each blog individually 15.1% 118 I read blogs in a Web-based RSS aggregator (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc.) 71.1% 557 I read [...]
Should we take off those training-wheels?
Sunday, October 7th, 2007no more training wheels Originally uploaded by shadycat I’ve been reading a number of interesting posts on the “training-wheels culture” from Dorothea Salo, Nicole Engard, and Emily Clasper. As I’ve been doing a lot of teaching — both online and in-person workshops — it’s an issue I’ve also been thinking a lot about on my [...]
Reflections on the Readex Digital Institute
Sunday, October 7th, 2007I didn’t end up blogging the rest of the conference, because I was too busy listening. There were some really interesting talks on topics I don’t usually hear about, like digital public history, so I kind of wanted to just take it in instead of typing out what someone was saying. It was also a [...]
Favorite blogs – List and Commentary
Sunday, September 30th, 2007The Top 10 1. Annoyed Librarian 2. Librarian in Black 3. Information Wants to be Free 4. Librarian.net 5. Tame the Web 6. Free Range Librarian 7. Library Stuff 8. Caveat Lector 9. Walt at Random 10. The Shifted Librarian (for the rest of the results, see just below the commentary) What can we learn [...]
Great stuff before the great trip
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007In three days, I’ll be on a plane, flying to Copenhagen, Denmark. I lived there for almost a year in college and I haven’t been back in nine years. I’m speaking at a conference on Sociale teknologier i fremtidens bibliotek 2.0 (Social Software and the Future of Library 2.0) on September 27. I absolutely can’t [...]
Are you a group blogger?
Monday, September 17th, 2007Then consider taking this survey on group blogging that my friends down under developed. They will be presenting the results at the VALA2008 Conference. The survey looks at motivations for contributing to a group blog, getting started, and how you keep it going. Considering that well over 200 people in the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere [...]
Are 1/4 of library bloggers cowards?
Monday, September 17th, 2007If you believe what some people have been saying, maybe so. I didn’t want to be on an Annoyed Librarian kick, but she commented on something that had been bothering me for a while; the assertion that people who blog anonymously (or pseudonymously) are cowards. Considering the number of bloggers who do not identify themselves [...]
What makes a blog successful?
Saturday, September 8th, 2007“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” -Walt Whitman Steven Bell wrote a comment on my post about the Top Three Library-Related Blogs survey: I hate to be a curmudgeon or party pooper, but I’m not sure I like this idea – in general I think [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
Friday, September 7th, 2007You can find comparisons from 2005 at Blog Demographics and Why We Blog. 12. How long have you had your primary blog? ResponsePercent ResponseCount Less than 4 months 16.6% 131 4-8 months 14.2% 112 9 months – 1 year 15.3% 121 13 months to 2 years 23.4% 185 25 months to 3 years 14.8% 117 [...]
Top Three Library-Related Blogs Survey
Friday, September 7th, 2007As an addendum to my Survey of the Biblioblogosphere and in response to the recent discussions about rating and ranking library blogs, I’ve created a survey where people can name their top three favorite library-related blogs. People use a lot of metrics to rank blogs, but I never see anyone actually asking people what their [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007Here are the 2005 results so you can have something to compare it to. 1. What is your gender? ResponsePercent ResponseCount Female 66.3% 556 Male 33.5% 281 Other 0.2% 2 answered question 839 skipped question 0 Women are definitely better represented in the blogopshere than they were last time, but men still are more likely [...]
2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Index of Results
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007I’m going to start publishing results from the survey in drips and drabs over the next few weeks hopefully, but this page will be the index to the results and will link to them as they come in: 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics 2007 Survey of the [...]
Do we need a translator here?
Thursday, August 30th, 2007I’m starting to feel like I’m witnessing the blogospheric version of the Tower of Babel story. There are a lot of people talking about Library 2.0 and I think there is also a lot of misunderstanding about what anyone is really saying. Bad girl that I am, I actually really enjoyed the Annoyed Librarian’s take [...]
When you wish upon a blog
Saturday, August 25th, 2007Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote that I really wanted to be an online adjunct instructor at a library school so I could teach social software to LIS students? And how I’d broached the idea with the Dean at FSU? Well… funny thing about that. The next morning I got an e-mail from [...]
Interesting facts from the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere 2007
Saturday, August 25th, 2007Between my headache issues and a crazy speaking/writing/teaching schedule, it is unlikely that I will be able to publish a comprehensive list of results for the 2007 Survey of the Bibilioblogosphere for a while. However, to whet your appetite, I thought I’d post some interested facts that I learned from the survey. 1. 839 people [...]
Free online learning… from ALA?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Speaking of libraries doing 2.0 things just to look cool, there is an organization that I’ve criticized about that in the past. I’ve been concerned that many of the hip, 2.0-ish things ALA has done have been mere window-dressing to make the organization look cool to new members. I didn’t see a lot of changes [...]
Divisions, dogma, and just doing a good job
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007I have to admit that the Annoyed Librarian is one of my guilty pleasures. I love to laugh and she makes me laugh like crazy, even though she’s probably insulted me on her blog in the past and I was too thick to notice. Reading something that is so diametrically opposed to most of what [...]
Be the first lab!
Saturday, August 11th, 2007I absolutely loved Jill Stover’s post about the library as a lab for creative exploration (by the way, if you don’t read her blog, subscribe! It’s a gem!): This “community creativity lab” is where where I see libraries’ future and competitive advantage. I can’t think of any other free, publicly-accessible place (except perhaps for museums, [...]
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