Category: Weblogs
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At it again – Common Craft – Blogs in Plain English
To go along with their other …in plain English series, Common Craft has released a new paperwork video entitled Blogs in Plain English.
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Local blogging space for Calgary – CalgaryBlogs.net
D’Arcy Norman in our Teaching and Learning Centre appears to have had some spare time over the past couple days and has unleashed an altruistic project upon the citizens of Calgary – CalgaryBlogs.net. The front page of the site reads: CalgaryBlogs.net is a free weblog hosting service. There are no ads, and no subscription fees.…
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The Blog Readability Test – bwahahahaaahaa!
Oh this is good – saw someone reference the Blog Readability Test (what level of education is required to understand your blog?) and of course plugged mine in to learn: Then just for fun I grabbed the first blogger I thought of who actually writes, and this is what Meredith at Information Wants to be…
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R-mail now SendMeRSS
R-mail, one of the first RSS to Email utilities I really liked, was acquired earlier this year by NBC, of all things. After quite a bit of development work, R-mail has now been re-introduced as SendMeRSS. Site looks really slick, and if you click on the banner at the top of the page (only later…
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Social Software, libraries & distance learners
Just learned about the Social Software, libraries & distance learners blog at the University of London – it’s part of their LASSIE (Libraries and Social Software in Education) Project. LASSIE "is exploring how social software might enhance distance learners’ use of libraries. It also considers more widely the value of new technologies, commonly called web…
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iLibrarian: Subscribed
Over the past few weeks especially I keep seeing references to the iLibrarian blog run by Ellyssa Kroski at Columbia University. If you’re at all interested in the stuff that makes up “Library 2.0” you should check it out.
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2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere
Meredith Farkas is repeating the survey she did a couple of years ago to try and get another snapshot of the Biblioblogosphere. If you’re involved in the library world and are a blogger, please consider taking her survey. I just finished it and have a couple of suggestions for clarification in the next iteration 🙂 …
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RSS Updates
A couple of things to note before the weekend – Roddy MacLeod has a really good overview article on RSS in the most recent issue of the FreePint Newsletter: “RSS Update: It’s RSS, Jim, but Not as We Know It“. Lots of good links in there, including one to a project he’s working on called…
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Blogs vs traditional literature
The opening section in Walt Crawford’s most recent issue (August 2007) of Cites & Insights really resonated with me. Entitled On the Literature, he begins with, "I believe that gray literature—blogs, this ejournal, a few similar publications and some lists—represents the most compelling and worthwhile literature in the library field today." He goes on to…
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New Blog for the LITA Distance Learning Interest Group
The LITA Distance Learning Interest Group has a new blog at http://dlig.wordpress.com/ It’s brand new and quite empty at the moment, but plug in that RSS feed and wait for content to arrive 🙂