Welcoming my friend and colleague to the blogosphere
Since July, I've been sharing an office. I thought I would absolutely hate it, but it turns out that it's been terrific. Sharing an office with the right person can…
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Should we take off those training-wheels?
no 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…
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Reflections on the Readex Digital Institute
I 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…
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Who knew?
"New ideas are fine, but they are also illegal, because they are a form of ageism... We've learned that you can't teach a dog new tricks, because it's illegal and…
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Readex Digital Institute: Peter Brantley
Update: Peter offers an account of his presentation and his slides on his blog. Ok, can I just say how much I love any conference with free wireless and outlets…
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Favorite blogs – List and Commentary
The 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.…
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Back from Denmark
I got back from Denmark last night and I'm still pretty exhausted from the whole trip. I don't even want to contemplate the pile of e-mails I received over the…
Great stuff before the great trip
In 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…
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Are you a group blogger?
Then 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…
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Are 1/4 of library bloggers cowards?
If 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…
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Away, away
DSC01509 Originally uploaded by FotoSpawn I'm going to be out of town from tomorrow until next Saturday. I definitely won't be posting anything during that time. I also probably won't…
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What makes a blog successful?
"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…
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
You can find comparisons from 2005 at Blog Demographics and Why We Blog. 12. How long have you had your primary blog?ResponsePercentResponseCount Less than 4 months 16.6% 131 4-8 months 14.2% 112 9 months – 1 year 15.3% 121 13…
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Top Three Library-Related Blogs Survey
As 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…
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
Here are the 2005 results so you can have something to compare it to. 1. What is your gender?ResponsePercentResponseCount 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…
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Index of Results
I'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…
Do we need a translator here?
I'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…
Posted inlibrary school social software
When you wish upon a blog
Remember 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…
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Interesting facts from the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere 2007
Between 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…
Posted inALA social software
Free online learning… from ALA?
Speaking 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,…