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 past 8 days. It was a wonderful trip though. So nice to be back in the city after nine long years. I got to see …
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 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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
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 be checking e-mail, so don’t be offended if your e-mails go unanswered for a bit. I look forward to coming back and seeing how the …
“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 …
You 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 …
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 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 …
Here 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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
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, 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 …
I 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 …
I 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, …
When I put the survey out, I hoped to get more responses than last time. Two years ago, I got somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 responses. I’ve been amazed to watch the number of responses grow and grow each day for the past two weeks. Right now, 750 people have filled out the survey; …
How can a library school teach their students to be user-focused if they model the exact opposite behaviors? Check out the assertive (and admirable) way that Jennifer tried to confront the issues she and other students had with the distance learning program at the Information and Library Science Department at Southern Connecticut State University. I …
I read Emily Clasper’s post yesterday about overachievers, underachievers and motivation and found that some of what she wrote made me very uncomfortable. I wasn’t quite sure how to articulate my feelings until I read Jennifer Macaulay’s rebuttal. Jennifer thinks she’s “odd” for not believing in absolutes and thinking that there isn’t any one definition …
In August of 2005, I conducted a survey of people in the library and information science profession who blog to get some sense of the demographic characteristics of bibliobloggers. The results of the first Survey of the Biblioblogosphere can be found here. After two years, it doesn’t take a survey to see that the library …