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Thanks FGL for such a nice bit to ponder this am. http://feelgoodlibrarian.typepad.com/feelgood_librarian/2005/04/the_beauty_of_d.html Are you reading this most cool Front Line Blog?

Nice post at Weblogs in Higher Edcucation. Ken writes about discussing weblogs with a friend who sticks mainly with newspapers, journals, columnists, etc. I found myself saying that bloggers were performing a different function than columnists. Sure, once in awhile bloggers carry out a direct act of reporting or research that could just as well have been done by a journalist. I think bloggers are processing issues and facts, passing ideas around, turning them over and over, nudging them, extending their reach, recontextualizing them, and otherwise living with ideas and information and drawing them out into wider communities to test […]

Today is the two year anniversary of Tame the Web. Inspired to start blogging by Steven Cohen in March 2003, TTW went live via the iBlog software on April 1, 2003 from the Panera Bread in Mishawaka, Indiana via my laptop. Here’s that first incarnation. And here are ten things I’ve learned in 2 years of being a Blogging Librarian: Ethics and Guidelines Count Ask Karen, she gets it more than any LIS Blogger I know. Not only are we writing and thinking about libraries but we are promoting ourselves, our jobs and the profession. Next time I bump into […]

http://gpclibraryradio.blogspot.com/ The audio blog from Georgia Perimeter College Libraries that david free has been working on. WOW: two libraries of note launching audio casts so close together… The world spins folks. Is your library ready?

http://walt.lishost.org/ (Via IM w/Steven)

“If you can blog…you can wiki.” I’m tingling!

Via Jessamyn: http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2005/03/rss_for_the_aad.html How geeked am I that this gets me going: Rest assured that useful, flexible, and broad RSS support is a major design goal of our new website, and we hope our feeds will find good homes in aggregators throughout the district… and beyond! Watch for the new aadl.org coming in early July [2005].

PowerPoint (PDF) (6.6 MB!) Evaluating LIS Weblogs (PDF) Types of LIS Weblogs Bibliography