Blah Blah Blogs

...and I have a blog. A few actually.

abada abada | librarian.net | livejournal | {vox}


Daily show on blogs, how I got librarian.net and jessamyn.com, how I saw things change

an example post

• blogs inform "most ideas worth sharing aren't finished"
• "stuff & connectors"
• other blog like words/pages: journal, "what's new" page, news/events
• created with a CMS
• live on the web
• have some or all of these parts [see image]

Scoble says What made blogging better than Web sites? Five things. 1) Ease of publishing. 2) Discoverability. (Pings weblogs.com or technorati or another ping server). 3) Conversationality. (Trackbacks or as-they-happen referer logs, or now being part of Technorati and other blog search engines). 4) Linkability. (All posts should have permalinks). 5) Syndicatability. (All content should be available in RSS feeds).

{image source} 950,000 hits for "not a blog" on google

• formal
• static
• newspapers
• more than a good tool for doing something else

• AADL - perpetual example blog
• writers and editors and library directors and ALA presidents
• Folks from the ALA and other associations
• vendors: OCLC, WebJunction, Earthlink, Sirsi
• Click the image for more or search LISZen.

Syndication is what turns blogs into publishing

• read a stripped down version of your favorite sites via the web or a free application
• interfile postings from blogs on similar topics
• where it comes from
• why it's easy, why it's complicated
• what it means
• how it looks

• look for these icons
• try out? bloglines + tutorial ...xml?

• Children's Department Paperless Notebook
• Goshen Public Library has an "about the blogs" page
• Dartmouth College Library News
• WisBlawg
• National Library of Scotland

Ask MetaFilter: questions asked, questions answered, unanswered

EDIT: blogger | vox | wordpress | booklist

dogster? questions?

Jessamyn West is a librarian, community technology mentor, and the editor of the weblog librarian.net. She teaches email classes for seniors, builds tiny websites for tiny libraries and advocates for sensible technology use at all types of libraries.

IM her at iamthebestartist.

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