{"id":668,"date":"2007-09-30T17:53:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/09\/30\/favorite-blogs-list-and-commentary\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T01:29:44","slug":"favorite-blogs-list-and-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/30\/favorite-blogs-list-and-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite blogs – List and Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Top 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Annoyed Librarian<\/a>
\n2. Librarian in Black<\/a>
\n3. Information Wants to be Free<\/a>
\n4. Librarian.net<\/a>
\n5. Tame the Web<\/a>
\n6. Free Range Librarian<\/a>
\n7. Library Stuff<\/a>
\n8. Caveat Lector<\/a>
\n9. Walt at Random<\/a>
\n10. The Shifted Librarian<\/a><\/p>\n

(for the rest of the results, see just below the commentary<\/em>)<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this? That no top ___ librar* blogs list is going to be definitive? That it doesn’t matter all that much as long as you enjoy what you’re doing as a blogger? How about all of the above? <\/p>\n

As I had predicted, the top 10 list is a good bit different from the top 10 list on the OEDB site<\/a>. The three blogs with the most Bloglines subscribers (librarian.net, The Shifted Librarian and Library Stuff) are not the top 3 favorite blogs, though they are not surprisingly in the top 10. Some of blogs did better and some did worse. It seems like any measure you use, you will get different results. And, so, what does any of it mean?<\/p>\n

What else can we learn? Well, seeing which blog is #1 (and that it wasn’t even all that close) tells me that a cynical view of the profession speaks to a lot of people. Nearly 1\/4 of all participants in the survey voted for the Annoyed Librarian. Or maybe it tells us that people who read my blog like it and like the other blogs on this list. Hard to know. With only 218 participants, this can by no means be considered a representative sample. But I think think we can still learn things from these results.<\/p>\n

I found a lot of blogs on this list below that I’ve never read and many that I plan on looking up afterwards. Being one of someone’s three favorite blogs is a pretty good endorsement, and I hope this will bring a lot of little known but well-written blogs to people’s attention.<\/p>\n

However, what does it mean not to be on this list? Not much. A blog might not be a “favorite” but might be one of those key useful blogs that just about everyone subscribes to. There are a lot of blogs that didn’t make the list that have quite a lot of subscribers (Blog Without a Library<\/a> is a great example; maybe if Amanda posted more *hint! hint!*). Similarly, a blog may have a small passionate and loyal following, but not have the same number of subscribers as the “A-list bloggers.” Clearly, neither is better<\/em>. Just because your blog is listed as a favorite doesn’t mean that your blog is the best. And just because your blog isn’t listed as a favorite doesn’t mean that your blog is any less great. A lot of my favorite blogs aren’t on the list, but I still enjoy them as do dozens or hundreds of other people. For example, The Goblin in the Library<\/a>, Library Man<\/a> and BlogJunction<\/a> are among my favorites. When forced to pick only three favorites, though, we pick the ones that mean the most to us at that particular time. Maybe that person is posting a lot. Or they’re posting things that we’re thinking about at the same time. I know my three
\nfavorites (the current group are not in the top 10) have changed over time and will continue to change. It’s all about what connects with me on a personal level and offers me what I’m looking for. It’s all about making that connection.<\/p>\n

Really, if you enjoy blogging, if you’re meeting your goals, or if you’re connecting with the folks you want to connect with, then you should be happy. I know people might say “it’s easy for her to say,” but honestly, who is in it for the numbers? When I started blogging, no one knew my name. I wrote about the things I cared about and people read it. Even in what is now a really saturated market, new bloggers can make a name for themselves. The Annoyed Librarian has been around for a little over a year and a half. David Rothman (who had a great showing) has been around since last summer. Time can help you build a blog audience, but interesting posts can do it more quickly.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to say exactly how many votes anyone got, but you can see the ranges below. <\/p>\n

7 to 10 votes (in no particular order)<\/strong>
\nStephen’s Lighthouse<\/a>
\nLISNews<\/a>
\nTales from the “Liberry”<\/a>
\nLorcan Dempsey’s weblog<\/a>
\nFeel-Good Librarian<\/a>
\nA Wandering Eyre<\/a>
\nResource Shelf<\/a>
\nA Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette<\/a>
\ndavidrothman.net<\/a><\/p>\n

3 to 6 votes (in no particular order)<\/strong>
\niLibrarian<\/a>
\nLibrary Bytes<\/a>
\nACRLog<\/a>
\nUbiquitous Librarian<\/a>
\nMiss Information<\/a>
\nLibrary Marketing: Thinking Outside the Book <\/a>
\nThe Kept-Up Academic Librarian<\/a>
\nPeter Suber’s Open Access News <\/a>
\nUnshelved<\/a>
\nInfotangle<\/a>
\nLibrary Juice<\/a>
\nLo-Fi Librarian <\/a>
\nUnion Librarian<\/a>
\nWhat I Learned Today<\/a>
\nOff the Mark<\/a>
\nT. Scott<\/a>
\nHectic Pace<\/a>
\nThe Other Librarian<\/a>
\nAcademic Librarian<\/a>
\nLibrary Garden<\/a>
\nLibraryCrunch<\/a>
\nConfessions of a Science Librarian<\/a>
\nThingology<\/a>
\nDistant Librarian <\/a>
\nThe Krafty Librarian<\/a>
\nLibrarians Matter <\/a>
\nPegasus Librarian<\/a>
\nThe Society for Librrians* Who Say “Motherf___er”<\/a>
\nRSS4Lib<\/a>
\nDavid Lee King<\/a>
\nLibrarian Avenger<\/a>
\nPop goes the library<\/a><\/p>\n

1 or 2 votes (in no particular order)<\/strong>
\nHazman Aziz<\/a>
\nDigitization 101<\/a>
\nRogue Librarian<\/a>
\nLibrary Science and the World Around Us <\/a>
\nALA TechSource Blog <\/a>
\nLibrary Grants<\/a>
\nUnion Librarian<\/a>
\nEnquiring Minds Want to Know <\/a>
\nLit Picks and Tech Tips <\/a>
\nDilettante’s Ball<\/a>
\nMatthew 2.0<\/a>
\nDigitalKoans<\/a>
\nThe Itinerant Poetry Librarian<\/a>
\nMadison Area Technical College<\/a>
\nAsk Sassy Systems<\/a>
\nThe Well Dressed Librarian <\/a>
\nOne Big Library <\/a>
\nJenica P. Rogers-Urbanek <\/a>
\nDesigning Better Libraries <\/a>
\nlibrary link of the day<\/a>
\nFRBR Blog<\/a>
\nBeanWorks<\/a>
\nA Library Writer’s Blog<\/a>
\nThe ABC Book Reviews – Blog & podcast – Twinsburg PL <\/a>
\nLove the Liberry <\/a>
\nCataloging Futures\t<\/a>
\nCatalogablog<\/a>
\nLibrary 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective<\/a>
\nThe Scattered Librarian<\/a>
\nblyberg.net<\/a>
\napophenia<\/a>
\nPeter Scott’s Library Blog<\/a>
\n\/home\/nicomo\/notes <\/a>
\nBookshelves of Doom<\/a>
\nUn Petit Cabanon<\/a>
\nOut of the Jungle<\/a>
\nCirc and Serve<\/a>
\nVampire Librarian<\/a>
\nA Fuse #8 Production<\/a>
\nThe Big Steve RSS Feed<\/a> (aggregates a bunch of feeds from Steve Matthews)
\nSee Also…<\/a>
\n025.431: The Dewey blog<\/a>
\nLibrarian’s Internet Index<\/a>
\nDevelopment Notes <\/a>
\nJoyce Valenza’s Neverending Search<\/a>
\nLibrary Revolution<\/a>
\nConcerned Librarians of BC<\/a>
\nBitter Librarian<\/a>
\nThe PlanetEsme Plan: The Best New Children’s Books from Esme’s Shelf <\/a>
\nThe “M” Word<\/a>
\nIt’s All Good<\/a>
\nPop Culture Librarian<\/a>
\nLibraryThing Blog<\/a>
\nSHUSH<\/a>
\nArchivesNext<\/a>
\nPhil Bradley<\/a>
\nMuseum 2.0<\/a>
\nWisBlawg <\/a>
\nInformation Overlord<\/a>
\nRoy Tennant Digital Libraries<\/a>
\nHunger and Homelessness and Poverty Task Force<\/a>
\nFree Government Information<\/a>
\nif:book<\/a>
\nFresh + New <\/a>
\nBlue Skunk Blog<\/a>
\nfoxylibrarian.com <\/a>
\nA Taste of Twinsburg -A Collection of Recipes from the Twinsburg Public Library Staff and Patrons <\/a>
\nAtlanta Fulton Public Library Watch\t<\/a>
\nCOSWL Cause<\/a>
\nFilipino Librarian<\/a>
\nTom Roper’s Weblog<\/a>
\nExtraLibris Concursos<\/a>
\nScience Resources (URL?)
\nLibrary Dust\t<\/a>
\nL-net blog <\/a>
\nThe SurRural librarian<\/a>
\nMaison Bisson <\/a>
\nDocuTicker<\/a>
\nomg tuna is kewl<\/a>
\nLITA Blog<\/a>
\nTour de Toile du BBF<\/a>
\nIssues in Scholarly Communication (not sure which one)
\nObnoxious Librarian from Hades<\/a>
\nYALSA blog\t<\/a>
\nLibrary Conspiracies<\/a>
\nNetbib<\/a>
\nMcMaster University Library blog<\/a>
\nChronicles of Bean<\/a>
\nACRC<\/a>
\nPCC Library Technology Blog<\/a>
\nIf I Ran the Universe… <\/a>
\nLibrary Techtonics<\/a>
\nRick Librarian <\/a>
\nLafeuille<\/a>
\nCUPE 391<\/a>
\nWendt Library Blog<\/a>
\nZB digitaal <\/a>
\nLibraryCog<\/a>
\nzeldman.com<\/a>
\nlibrarytechnz<\/a>
\nHeretical Librarian<\/a>
\nLibrary Too<\/a>
\nThe Prelinger Library<\/a>
\nresearchbuzz<\/a>
\nSLIS Independent Student Blog<\/a>
\nLibrary Blog Buzz<\/a>
\nBates Tip of the Month<\/a>
\nlibrary of congress blog <\/a>
\nradical reference<\/a>
\nDays & Nights of the Lipstick Librarian<\/a>
\nThe Information Literacy Land of Confusion <\/a>
\nPattern Recognition<\/a>
\nLife as I know It<\/a>
\nScience Library Pad<\/a>
\nThe Soapbox\t<\/a>
\nCollectanea<\/a>
\nDosPuntoCero<\/a>
\nReader’s Advisor Online Blog<\/a>
\nA Librarian Told Me So <\/a>
\nProgressive Librarians (URL?)
\nThe Youth Librarian’s Report<\/a>
\nThe Medium is the Message<\/a>
\nFabiano Caruso<\/a>
\nThe Good Library Blog<\/a>
\nBlog on the Side <\/a>
\ntypo of the day<\/a>
\nDr. Web’s Domain<\/a>
\nShelved in the W’s<\/a>
\nChristina’s LIS Rant<\/a>
\nLibrary Web Chic<\/a>
\nTinfoil + Raccoon<\/a>
\nDLOG<\/a>
\nLaw Librarian Blog<\/a>
\nThe OPLIN 4cast<\/a>
\nLauren’s Library Blog<\/a>
\nGather No Dust <\/a>
\nCoyle’s InFormation<\/a>
\nthe.effing.librarian<\/a>
\nLibrarians as knowledge managers <\/a>
\nYoung Librarian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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