Background

This is a collection of links I put together as background for a presentation about blogging and its uses/impacts on a science library.

Background

See the 5 minute video (also available just as audio) from Charlene Li of Forrester entitled Blogging: Bubble or Big Deal? When and How Businesses Should Use Blogs.

Requires RealPlayer and that you be set up to listen to audio on your computer.

Handouts

There is a useful handout showing the structure of a blog and a blog entry Blogs for Information Management (PDF) from a presentation by Christina Pikas.

For More Information: Detailed Blogging and RSS Presentation

See the fantastic presentation by Darlene Fichter http://library.usask.ca/~fichter/talks05/cla/2005.06.16.cla.weblogs.rss.ppt

What's the big deal? (1) Who is blogging?

Measuring the Blogosphere

• Technorati - State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth
• Technorati - State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 2: Posting Volume

Libraries and Librarians using blogs

• http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/?page_id=94 (just libraries)
• http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html (libraries and librarians)

Science Libraries

• http://apollo.lib.umanitoba.ca/blogs/stl/ (down?)
• http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/
• NEW http://scilibupdate.blogspot.com/
• NEW http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/

OCLC

• Lorcan Dempsey - http://orweblog.oclc.org/
• http://scanblog.blogspot.com/
• http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/

Other Library Organizations and Library Systems Vendors

• RLG - http://hangingtogether.org/
• Talis - http://blogs.talis.com/

Researchers / Scientists / Research Topics

See The Scientist The Power of the Blog.

• http://charlie.dgrc.crc.ca/~sylvie/Blog/neq1.html
• http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/txt/researchblogs.html
• http://www.andrewpatrick.ca/blog/
• http://www.emigresearch.com/
• http://www.acronymrequired.com
• http://www.biologynews.net
• http://www.elementlist.com
• http://girlscientist.blogspot.com
• http://startsimple.com/trend/biotech/
• http://www.biotechblog.com
• http://www.corante.com/pipeline/
• http://www.scienceboard.net/community/blogs.asp
• http://www.nodalpoint.org/
• http://bioinformatics.org/
• http://www.biopeer.com/ (Eric Gerritsen)
• http://homepage.mac.com/femtobio/plexus/
• http://blog.crownstoneinsights.com/
• http://www.corante.com/loom/
• http://www.sciencenerddepot.com/
• http://www.leepotts.com/tehi/ and
• http://www.eelsinvinegar.org/ (Lee Potts)
• http://www.world-science.net/

Publishers, Publishing and Journals

• http://atgdev.elsevier.com/blogs/cleonard/ (gone)
• NEW http://yourees.elsevier.com/blog/
• http://www.bloglines.com/blog/eprintblog
• http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm (a linkblog of everything having to do with scholarly electronic publishing)
• DigitalKoans: What Is the Sound of One E-Print Downloading? http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/
• http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/670000067.html
• NEW Nature http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/ http://blogs.nature.com/nn/actionpotential/ http://blogs.nature.com/ng/freeassociation/

Information Consultancies

• http://now.outsellinc.com/now/
• http://shore.com/commentary/weblogs/
• http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/toplevel/
• http://weblog.gartner.com/weblog/weblogindex.php
• http://blogs.forrester.com/ (Charlene Li)

Other Specialized Topics

• http://patentlaw.typepad.com/patent/

Article Repositories

• http://arxiv.org/tb-recent/

University blog space

• http://weblogs.upei.ca/
• http://blog.uwinnipeg.ca/
• http://weblogs.ucalgary.ca/
• http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/home/

GM

http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/

IBM

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=351&entry=81328

As has been reported on a variety of blogs around the net, IBM today is publishing an announcement on its Intranet site encouraging all 320,000+ employees world wide to consider engaging actively in the practice of "blogging". This move follows several years of persistent grassroots efforts by an informal community of IBM bloggers.

Business Week

Blogs Will Change Your Business May 2, 2005

Conference Tracks

• SLA 2005 "Blogging/RSSing the Librarian Way" +
• CLA 2005 "Blogging & RSS: Applications & Technology"
• ALA 2005

The Science and Technology Section of ACRL is focusing its General Discussion Group on science libraries and blogs at the ALA annual conference. Sunday June 26, 2005 9:30-11:00, Holiday Inn City Center, Ohio.

Topic: Science Libraries and Blogs

Blogs. They're everywhere. … What are science libraries and librarians doing with blogs? Join us for a discussion about blogs with two science librarian bloggers, Alesia Mcmanus and George Porter. Alesia is Head of the Science Library at Binghamton University. She contributes to the "Science Library Blog" at http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/ . George, a librarian at the Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, is a contributor to the "scitech library question" at http://stlq.info/ . We'll also hear about the campus wide blogs, UThink, hosted by the University of Minnesota. You can check out UThink at http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ .

Articles

There have been many, in the popular press, journal articles, everywhere.

(afore-mentioned Business Week article)

Fortune 10 Tech Trends to Watch in 2005

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1011763,00.html

OCLC Systems and Services The Wiki and the digital library January 2005

Info World Enterprise collaboration with blogs and wikis March 25, 2005

CIO Insight Rise of the Blog April 5, 2005

TechRepublic on Blogs vs. wikis: Which is best for internal government use? May 23, 2005 http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878-5711955.html#

Infoconomy on corporate blogs and wikis http://www.wikisquared.com/2005/06/infoconomy_revi.html

JDN Solutions Wikis et weblogs : le renouveau des outils de groupware ? 17/06/2005 http://solutions.journaldunet.com/0506/050617_analyse_weblogs.shtml

CIO Update Corporate Blogging Gaining Momentum August 1, 2005 (via Frank Oda)

Outsell:

• My Way: RSS Puts Users In The Information Driver's Seat
• TrendAlert: RSS, Wikis, And Blogs - Oh My! Popular Technology In The Enterprise

Reichardt, Randy and Geoff Harder. 2005. “Weblogs: Their Use and Application in Science and Technology Libraries.” Science & Technology Libraries, 25(3): 105-116. available at http://stlq.info/blogstl.pdf

Webcasts

ALA 'Blogging in Academic Research Libraries: The "Why" and the "How"' June 8, 2005

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/blogwebcast.htm

Presentations

Blogging for Science Librarians

http://www.yorku.ca/jdupuis/splisc/index_files/v3_document.htm

by John Dupuis, Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University Libraries

Blogging of conferences

SLA 2005 official conference weblog

http://slablogger.typepad.com/sla_conference_blog/

French bloggers

Wired News: Vive les Blogs! http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67273,00.html

According to statistics from the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, French is now the most common language in the blogosphere after English -- and the craze is building, with a rash of regular blog soirees, the launch of several political weblogs and the emergence of more French bosses in CEO blogger circles.

"France is certainly taking a lead in the European market in a big way," said Lee Bryant, a social-software consultant with London-based Headshift. "There is a sense of an opportunity that people must jump on."

The French blogeur revolution is being spearheaded by precocious youngsters. According to government figures, half of all schoolchildren are bloggers, an estimated 3 million. Almost 2 million of them use Skyblog, a service operated by youth radio station Skyrock that is growing by around 600 new journals and 200,000 entries every day.

The Vibrant Growth of the French Blogosphere http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050429TheVibrantGrowthoftheFrenchBlogosphere.html

Quebec: le blogue, carnet Web, cybercarnet http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/bibliotheque/dictionnaires/Internet/fiches/8370242.html

Government of Canada: le carnet Web, cybercarnet, blogue (obsolete)

• http://termiumplus.translationbureau.gc.ca/tpv2Show/termiumplus.html?lang=e2
• http://www.termium.gc.ca/

Le carnet techno http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/techno/

What's the big deal? (2)

Competing in the attention economy

The blog power law

• http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
• http://www.kottke.org/03/02/weblogs-and-power-laws
• http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/09/power_laws_and_priorities

Don Tapscott - Net Generation, Transparent Organizations

• http://www.growingupdigital.com/
• http://www.ageoftransparency.com/

also see OCLC Environmental Scan

http://www.oclc.org/membership/escan/

The first blog posting?

http://www.evhead.com/1999/02/i-just-got-new-dsl-connection-via.asp

Reading, Searching and Monitoring Blogs

Searching and RSS

• http://www.feedster.com/
• http://www.technorati.com/
• http://www.blogdigger.com/
• http://blogsearch.google.com/
• Search Engine Watch - RSS Search Engines lists many others
• http://www.pubsub.com/ (prospective search, not retrospective)

Saved Searches

Blog Ranking and Trending Tools

• http://www.blogpulse.com/
• http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/
• http://www.pubsub.com/linkcounts.php
• http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500

Blog and Posting Stats

• http://www.pubsub.com/site_stats.php
• http://www.feedburner.com/

Examples:

• http://www.maisonbisson.com/blog/
• http://www.pubsub.com/site_stats.php?site=http%3A%2F%2Forweblog.oclc.org%2F

Enabling: Making your content bloggable

• http://www.librarystuff.net/2005/07/rss-feeds-from-engineering-village-2.html

Controlling: Policy

• Computing Canada (via Workopolis) Blog warning: No policy equals exposure