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The Liblog Landscape

Published on 12 January 2009 in book reviews, blogosphere and blogging. 5 Comments

I’ve been reading Walt Crawford’s book, The Liblog Landscape 2007 - 2008.

Walt’s done a really good job with this book. He’s taken 607 blogs (the list is here) written by library people over 2007 - 2008 and looked at how each blog has changed/developed over the period. Changes in the numbers of posts, comments, images used, and the frequency and length of posts are documented.

Here are my figures.

We also learn a lot of interesting facts from Walt’s study - for instance, academic library folks make up the majority of Walt’s sample (176 blogs, or 29%), followed closely by those who are affiliated with public libraries at 102 blogs, or 16.8. The next category is law libraries or librarians at 26 blogs (4.3% - quite a steep plunge).

Thank you, Walt, for writing this book. Will we all still be blogging in two years, five years, ten years? How will blogging develop as a medium? When we look back at this period, this book will be a valuable record.

Sharing on Google Reader

Published on 13 August 2008 in RSS readers, RSS, reading, blogosphere and blogging. 7 Comments

Any of you Google Reader users use the share feature a lot? What sorts of things do you share?

Do you follow other people’s shared items? The only person I know of who actively looks at my shared items and comments on them (verbally) is M.

Just looking at my shared items and wondering why I usually don’t bother to blog them. Actually, I think I know why I don’t blog them - it’s the time factor again. I follow so much stuff in Reader that I’d have to give up my day job to blog everything that was interesting.

Blogging blogging blogging*

Published on 8 May 2008 in blogging. 2 Comments

I’m always tough on myself when I neglect this blog, but I’ve just realised that although I have let things slide a bit here lately, I’ve actually been blogging a lot - at work. For example since Monday I have written EIGHT blog posts (and that’s just for our staff blog) and written quite a few comments. I always forget this blogging, as though it doesn’t count, somehow.

* read to the tune of “Rolling, rolling, rolling”.