VTLS : Blogs

Blogs:

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:37:45 GMT

LITA is a Bloggin'. KGS blogs the news: LITA will have a weblog. Hip Hip Hooray. So, which division will be the next to step up to the plate? YALSA? ACRL? RUSA? In PLA Blog news, we're just waiting on a few more T's being crossed and I's being dotted before I can com [Library Stuff]

Automation:

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:15:57 GMT

Computers in Libraries 2005 weblogs. Durst writes "Covering the conference live, Information Today's staff have posted a blog here. Other comments about the conference have been found at CBS' Marketwatch Internet Daily. Rochelle adds: There are links to other official blogs at the top of the Info Today blog. And, Blake gave his LISNews presentation this afternoon. Maybe he'll post it after he gets back." [LISNews.com]

Blogs:

Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:58:20 GMT

CNN gives bloggers some respect. Investors Business Daily Mar 18 2005 6:52AM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

Weblogs :

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:07:35 GMT

Why blogs ain't nothing new. CyberJournalist.net Jan 27 2005 7:12PM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

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Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:26:23 GMT

MSN tests new blog, search features. CNET Asia Jan 13 2005 2:35AM GMT [Moreover - Online information news]

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Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:15:27 GMT

Blogs Make Perfect Aids To Learning. WebProNews Jan 25 2005 2:50AM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

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Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:06:44 GMT

Web logs come of age as source of news. San Francisco Chronicle Jan 24 2005 3:16PM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

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Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:06:06 GMT

Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World. I just ordered a copy of this book, which was just published last week. It'll make for good train reading. Expect a review when I've finished it (maybe in a week or two). (link via Jolly Blogger) [Library Stuff]

Weblogs :

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:04:35 GMT

Blogging Goes Mainstream. Media Post Aug 27 2004 1:52PM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

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Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:46:06 GMT

Blog Related Search Engines On The Rise. Search Engine Lowdown Aug 26 2004 5:47PM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

Weblogs :

Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:43:35 GMT

Libraries, Non-Profits, and more.

Weblogs: The Promise for Nonprofit Organizations makes some valid points in its list. A few that could pertain more to libraries include:

"You can become a trusted information source. The more you add useful links to your weblog, the more you become a trusted source for information. For example, Oceana's weblog provides useful and regular information from experts pointing to studies, projects, and other information that I would not be able to find on my own. I therefore see the organization as credible, and that credibility transfers to its other efforts, including fundraising."

"A Weblog gives readers a reason to visit your Web site regularly. The useful information you post gives visitors a reason to come back regularly. Frequent visitors are more likely to engage with your organization's efforts online and off-line."

See also: Part 2 of the article, most importantly:

"What Weblogs Might Be Able to Do If We All Play Our Cards Right

1. Provide an opportunity for ad hoc collaboration
2. Raise the profile of important issues to a large, cross-organization constituency
3. Provide a World Wide Web-sized conversation in context
4. Provide access to tools to organizations that might not be able to afford them
5. Create a variety of win-win situations"

(link via Full Circle) [Library Stuff]

Weblogs :

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:00:25 GMT

SocialTwister.com.

In my quest to read more about Social Software and it's impact on the library community (thanks KMD for the push into this arena), I've subscribed to a bunch of new feeds, including, SocialTwister.com (RSS), whose description tag says:

"SocialTwister's goal is to examine the impact of the Internet and Technology on our perception of both information and one another"

I've also set up Feedster and Pubsub feeds for the key phrase "social software". Topix also has a Feed on the topic. Suweeeeeet. [Library Stuff]

Weblogs :

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:00:02 GMT

Social Software and the Enabling Council.

From an article enitled, Social Software and the Enabling Council:

"What these increasingly popular forms of 'social software' demonstrate is that people will interact online around shared interests. However, rather than just connecting people on the other side of the world with an unusual passion for first editions of Local Government White Papers, we are increasingly seeing social software being used for the development of voluntary, bottom-up social networks around the common interest of the locality. In short, the internet is becoming more local."

Chew on this: librarians working together in an online social network community for collaboration, getting help with reference questions, interlibrary loans, and much more. I keep hearing this song playing in the back of my brain: "Something tells me I'm into something good" (link via Headshift) [Library Stuff]

Weblogs :

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:59:43 GMT

Walt on Social Software.

Walt Crawford says that he doesn't understand Social Software. Because of the good timing on my social software posts tonight, I feel the need to respond.

When I talk about Social Software, I'm not necessarily talking about Orkut, Friendster, and the rest per se , but a concept that I have been trying to form in my brain about how people working together in groups (the "social" in social software) to form better concepts, theories, and work product than the sole individual. Librarians (or any other professionals) can use online resources (the "software" in social software) to collaborate, work out problems, form ideas, etc for the common good of the profession. It's not just about meeting people. It's about working with these people in a group effort. I'll understand more as I read up on the topic (I have The Wisdom of Crowds on order and have a few more like it on interlibrary loan). In remembering back to my masters work in psychology, there are many theories about how groups work and interact with each other that build confidences as well as enhanced production. I can't wait to delve into this more. [Library Stuff]

Weblogs :

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:58:48 GMT

RSS blogs give me so many eyes and ears.

Janet Tokerud on how weblogs and RSS fit into social networking in a post entitled, RSS blogs give me so many eyes and ears:

"What struck me is how great it is to be able to find out about this stuff in a timely manner. I doubt that I would have ever even found this excellent little piece without my RSS reader and all the blogging community and the NYT working together on my behalf.

We are all so busy these days. We rely on our network to clue us into things we should pay attention to. I used to rely on my own browsing efforts and word of mouth from my personal friends. Not any more! I feel so connected and in a way protected. People are looking out for me. People I haven't met... Thanks."

And my personal thanks to all those library bloggers out there who have linked to articles, resources, and online tools that I would not have seen if it weren't for weblogs and RSS. [Library Stuff]

Weblogs :

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:18:55 GMT

Semblogging. From Catalogablog:

Semblogging

The Semblogging demonstrator is now out.

Here are some simple notes for looking at the HP Labs semantic blogging demonstrator The blog is intended to show the use of semantic web technologies augmenting the blogging paradigm, and applied to the domain of bibliography management. For further details about the requirements for this demonstrator, see the requirements specification. We believe that the use of semantic metadata can allow a blog to be used in new and powerful ways.

We have chosen bibliography management because it shows how we can use semantic web technologies to push blogging from a communal diary browsing experience to a rich information sharing activity. Specifically, we have divided the functionality into semantic view, semantic navigation and semantic query. [inSilico - A Princeton University Library metadata and digital library blog]

Weblogs :

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:09:50 GMT

Read this article - not this one.

A couple libloggers (or should it be two b's?) pointed to this article, "Weblogs: Do they belong in libraries?" without praise for it.

Even so, I think it is worthwhile if only for the fact it led me to this article in the same issue - "Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing".

According to the article:

"In this article we make a simple case for library groupware as a unifying service model across disparate information environments. We consider the distributed, personalised collection development model that groupware would serve, and propose an architectural model which might provide a first step in an evolutionary path from today's commonplace digital library services towards integrated library groupware."

Jeez, that's all?

This brief article presents an overview of the converging methods of information sharing that are outstripping the library's current technological toolkits- even as we try to keep up through adapatations- that will lead to "user bypass" unless those tools change to meet user's needs. In their words:

"The common thread running through these innovations is that each new service helps individuals move and connect more kinds of information from more diverse resources through the various information communities in which they participate. We are still at a stage where each innovation adds value within a well-defined community or information context, even while we are learning that we will have to meet the needs of users who regularly move between formal and informal communities, and between public and private contexts. Before long, our ability to meet these users' needs will be limited by our inability to allow users to create and connect information sources and services as they see fit."

The only downside of this article? I think I went to library school with two of the authors and I feel very, very small in the grey matter department after reading it. Who ever thought you could have library school classmate envy?

[TechnoBiblio]

Weblogs :

Fri, 21 May 2004 15:41:15 GMT

Microsoft boss Bill Gates gets the blogging bug. BBC May 21 2004 12:44PM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

Weblogs :

Thu, 20 May 2004 21:11:33 GMT

What Traditional Publishers Should Know About Blogs. MasterNewMedia.org May 20 2004 5:53PM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

Weblogs :

Thu, 20 May 2004 19:46:10 GMT

Browser to Deliver New Blog Entries. AP via ABCNEWS.com May 17 2004 12:45PM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

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Thu, 20 May 2004 19:45:15 GMT

Scholars analyze Weblogs. CyberJournalist.net May 17 2004 11:35PM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news]

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Wed, 19 May 2004 12:40:57 GMT

Scholars study blogging. Mark Glaser, Scholars Discover Weblogs Pass Test as Mode of Communication, Online Journalism Review, May 14, 2004. More on academic blogology, or the study of blogging, than the academic use of blogs, unfortunately. (Thanks to the NFAIS Information Community News.) [Open Access News]

Weblogs :

Wed, 12 May 2004 18:01:19 GMT

Google Starts Blogging. ClickZ News Says giant Google has launched a business blog to communicate with the public about "new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search." www.google.com/googleblog, doesn't have much yet. [LISNews.com]

Weblogs :

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:50:52 GMT

CBS 2 Chicago.

CBS 2 Chicago is one of the many news networks that understand the power of RSS to deliver content to their readers, with 13 feeds (I can even get an Andy Rooney Feed - Hip Hip Hooray!!) I am going to assume that more newspapers have RSS feeds than television news programs that have a web presence, but I could be wrong. This could make for an interesting study.

BTW, I'm still waiting for Newsday to join the RSS bandwagon. Now that I kinda have an "in", maybe I'll try to do more convincing. Sigh. (link via NewsIsFree) [Library Stuff]

Weblogs :

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:50:35 GMT

Radio Blog Club.

When I first looked at Radio Blog Club, which allows weblog writers to stream music onto their blog, I thought, "big whoop", but then I thought a bit about public libraries (I'm in the middle of writing a primer on weblogs and libraries), and realized that those libraries that are incorporating their library catalogs with a weblog can use this tool to stream their mp3 content so that patrons can listen a bit before deciding on whether or not to check out the item. Is this too far fetched? I don't think so. Aaron told me that he has Lessig's book in Mp3 format in his catalog. Why not add a streaming listening features? One issue: bandwidth. Listen Illinois, might be able to incorporate something like this.

Before I download a Grateful Dead show from the Internet Archive, I listen to it first to check for any sound issues. If it sounds good, I download. I like the streaming feature. I feel like I'm in a music store and can listen to the songs before I buy (or, er, download)

(link via del.icio.us) [Library Stuff]