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.
