Weblogs for Libraries:
A Delaware Division of Libraries Workshop
August 31, 2006
The address of this web page is
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dream/delablogs.html
or use.....http://tinyurl.com/g96wc


What is a Blog?

7 things you should Know about Blogs
(from the excellent Educause 7 things You Should Know About... series)
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7006.pdf

Are You Using the Right Blogging Tool?
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050714gardner/

Weblogs Compendium
http://www.lights.com/weblogs/

EFF Legal Guide for Bloggers
http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/

Teen Content Creators and Consumers: Pew/Internet Report
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/166/report_display.asp

Technorati Top 100 Blogs (as measured by links)
http://www.technorati.com/live/top100.html

Boing, Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (top 3 most popular blog)
http://www.boingboing.net/

Post Secret (among the 10 most popular)
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Engadget (top 3)
http://www.engadget.com/

Achenblog: Joel Achenbach (Washington Post)
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/

Going Out Gurus: DC Entertainment Dispatches
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/
 
 


Searching for Blogs and Topics Within Blogs

Technorati (Currently tracking 39.6 million sites and 2.4 billion links.)
http://www.technorati.com/

Google Blog Search (updates with new content much faster than standard web searches)
http://google.com/blogsearch

Feedster (32,986,135 feeds indexed and fully searchable)
http://www.feedster.com/

Blogdigger
http://blogdigger.com/

    Blogdigger Local
    http://local.blogdigger.com/index.html
    Blogdigger Media search (mp3 or video or images)
    http://www.blogdigger.com/media/

Blog Search Engine
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/

Globe of Blogs (directory of blogs by topics, locations, etc)
http://www.globeofblogs.com/

Bloggernity
http://www.bloggernity.com/

Feedmap (find blogs by location)
http://www.feedmap.net/BlogMap/search.aspx


Libraries' Use of Blogs

Library Weblogs
http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html

Blogging Libraries Wiki  (lists of academic, public, school & special libraries blogs)
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=
Welcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki

Library and Information Science: Weblogs (from the Open Directory)
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Weblogs/

Hennepin County (Minnesota) Library RSS Feeds
http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/RSS.cfm

BlogBib
http://blog-bib.blogspot.com/

VCU Libraries: Library Suggestion Blog
http://blog.vcu.edu/libsuggest/

VCU Libraries: TML Service Desk News
http://blog.vcu.edu/tmlnews/

University of Richmond Libraries: What's New
http://urlibrary.blogspot.com/

Pushing Librarians Into Public Awareness
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib246.html

Ryan Memorial Library: RSS Feeds for Catholics
http://www.scs.edu/library/feeds/rss.htm



Bloglines  for Monitoring Blogs

Bloglines
http://bloglines.com/
   -- Search and subscribe function
  -- Sharing your blogroll
     http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs

Bloglines for Librarians in Three (and a half) Easy Steps
http://joy.mollprojects.com/blog/projects/quickrss.html
 


Recommended Blogs for Librarians

ResourceShelf's DocuTicker
(daily update of new reports from government agencies, ngo's, think tanks, and other groups)
http://www.docuticker.com/

LIS News.com (Library and Information Science News)
http://www.lisnews.com/

Librarian's Internet Index :What's New
http://lii.org/cs/lii/print/htdocs/subscribe.htm

The Kept-Up Academic Librarian
http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/

LawLibTech (law library technology and knowledge management)
http://www.lawlibtech.com/

It's all Good (OCLC staffers)
http://scanblog.blogspot.com/

Beyond the Job (a career development blog for information professionals)
http://librarycareers.blogspot.com/

Free Range Librarian
http://freerangelibrarian.com/

PLA Blog: Public Library Association
http://www.plablog.org/

Bizgirl: International Librarian of mystery
http://bizgirl.blogspot.com/

Jon Udell's Weblog
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/
     A sample of Jon's screencasts
     http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/intermediation.html

Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book
http://librarymarketing.blogspot.com/


Recommended Non-Library Blogs

SearchEngineWatch Blog
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/

Google Blog
http://www.google.com/googleblog/

On Google Scholar
http://schoogle.blogspot.com/

Marcus Zillman Web Resources
http://zillman.blogspot.com/

New York Times Technology: Pogue's Posts
http://www.nytimes.com/technology/poguesposts/index.html

Wired Campus Blog: Education-technology news from around the Web,
brought to you  by The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://wiredcampus.chronicle.com/

Get Schooled: An Education Blog
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/custom/blogs/education/index.html

Ask the Techies (Ohio University)
http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/aac/lab/techies/

Fortune 500 Blogging Wiki (a directory of corporate blogs)
http://www.socialtext.net/bizblogs/index.cgi


Creating Your Own Blog

Weblogs Compendium: Blog Hosting
http://www.lights.com/weblogs/hosting.html

Blog Software Breakdown
http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm

Blogger.com (free blog hosting)
http://www.blogger.com/start
    Dan Ream's Other Blog
    http://danream.blogspot.com/

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?
http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm

Build a Better Blog
http://nextlevelpartner.typepad.com/bbab/

Moveable Type
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/
     VCU Blogs
     http://blog.vcu.edu/
     Dan Ream's Blog
     http://blog.vcu.edu/dream/
     Pricing & Licenses
     http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/pricing

ProBlogger: Helping Bloggers Earn Money
http://www.problogger.net/


What is RSS?

What is RSS?
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

RSS Compendium
http://allrss.com/

RSS for Beginners
http://allrss.com/mla2005/

RSS: Rich Site Services
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm

U.S. Government RSS Library
http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/RSS_Library.shtml

New York Times RSS Feeds
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html

Washington Post RSS Feeds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/index.html

Electronic Journals with RSS Feeds
http://library.usask.ca/ejournals/rss_feeds.php

RssFwd : Reading RSS the way you are already reading your emails
http://www.rssfwd.com/
 



Page compiled by Dan Ream  for the  Delaware Division of Libraries
August, 2006