Monday, July 14, 2003

Blogging the Arts: "Andy Rhinehart found another big blogging anouncement via E-Media Tidbits : The Blogging Revolution "Starting July 14, ArtsJournal.com , a daily digest of arts and cultural journalism, will also launch its own set of weblogs. AJ Blogs will be written by critics from the Wall Street Journal, Commentary and New York Magazine ." ... [The Shifted Librarian]" 10:10:09 AM

Thursday, July 03, 2003

New Blog for Interlibrary Loan News: Kate Boyle at the Suburban Library System has a new blog for Interlibrary Loan News.  To subscribe, use this RSS feed. 3:18:04 PM

Wednesday, June 25, 2003

BloggerCon 2003 BloggerCon 2003 is scheduled for October 4 at Harvard University.  They have a blog that chronicles the conference's planning process and other useful information about the conference.  The conference aims to cover blogs in art, business, journalism, education, librarianship, etc. 10:51:14 AM

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Roogle, a search engine for RSS feeds... "Roogle is a search engine for RSS feeds. It is just starting, so it only has a limited number of feeds. Go add your favorite 'blog RSS feeds and increase the value of this tool."  [Catalogablog] Chi Lib Rocks! has been added today.  I also ran a sample search and a number of library news blogs also provided hits.   1:04:03 PM

Friday, March 07, 2003

Blogging in Corporate America: Michael Gartenberg has written this article entitled Blogging for Fun and Profit. While written for IT departments and professionals, much of the advice applies equally well to information centers/ libraries and librarians.  Thanks to Scripting News for the link. 3:46:28 PM

Monday, February 24, 2003

Upcoming RSS Presentation at GILS Conference!. " I just got off the phone with Ray Matthews from the Utah State Library Division . You may recall that the USLD is doing wonderful things with RSS , especially in relation to their Government Information Locator Service (GILS) project . I am ecstatic to announce that Ray will be attending the 5th Annual State GILS Conference in April in nearby Lisle, IL, in order to speak about RSS! We both hope this will be an RSS wake-up call for libraries and government agencies and that it will help put ... [The Shifted Librarian]" Thanks for the heads up, Jenny.  I wonder how many libraries would like a news aggregator service for their patrons.  Maybe this is something that can be integrated into the My Chicago Library portal. 3:53:19 PM

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Blogs in Education: In its February 2003 issue, Technology & Learning has an article entitled "Writing with Web Logs" by Kristen Kennedy that gives resources for educators in using blogging in the classroom for writing assignments.  In the print issue, this article runs from page 11 to page 14. 10:35:41 AM

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