How cool is this: Jennifer Sharkey is blogging the workshop so it is archived and can be looked at as Purdue Libraries move forward with blogs & RSS! http://pulbloggingrss.blogspot.com/
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Here’s where we will be: (there are frogs all over town too!)
Please add The Feel Librarian to your subscriptions… she never ceases to amaze me by writing about the profession in her own unique way. It’s all about people folks! (Sometimes techno-anything gets in the way of remembering we meet a lot of PEOPLE across these desks…FGL reminds me of that!)
Here’s a bit from NPR from fellow blogger and IUSB professor Ken Smith: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wvpe/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=773225 “Over time a virtual community is born there on the web…” “Librarians are using blogs to keep up to date on technology…” The SJCPL Lifeline is mentioned! Thanks Ken!!!
Thanks David! Good stuff… (I’m getting caught up after being on the road…) http://daweed.blogspot.com/2005/05/15-things-you-can-do-with-rss.html
Nice chat with Ken Smith Tuesday about our community, blogging, RSS and “not getting blogging.” Thanks Ken!
Winnie, an Indiana Librarian, writes in an e-mail about setting up a blog at her library: It’s so easy and a great way to get library news and information out. http://nchcplreader.blogspot.com/ (Note NCHCPL also IMs….)
http://kairosnews.org/blogbib http://www.grumet.net/writing/web/deep-thinking-about-weblogs.html
Via Skagirlie: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/news/story.php?story_id=958 One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog. Why do they chose to they expose their unremarkable opinions, sententious drivel and unedifying private lives to the potential gaze of total strangers? What prompts this particular kind of digital exhibitionism? The present generation of bloggers seems to imagine that such crassly egotistical behavior is socially acceptable and that time-honored editorial and filtering functions have no place in cyberspace. Undoubtedly, these are the same individuals who believe that the free-for-all, communitarian approach of Wikipedia is the way forward. Librarians, of course, know better. What blows me away here is […]