These are the People in Your Neighborhood…

Are blogs dying, being supplanted by all sorts of other Web 2.0 gizmos like FriendFeed and Twitter?  Maybe.  It takes a lot more time and energy to write and read a substantive blog post.  But one way to stave off blog death is to get more readers and have more of a conversation on your [...]

back in the saddle

-After a week of easing back into work post-vacation (read: chatting with co-workers, catching up on correspondence/reading and watching out for rats…um, without going into too much detail about that last one, let me just say this: THERE IS A REASON WE WANT YOU TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT FOOD IN THE LIBRARY, KIDS!!!), I am [...]

Mashable Invites

One of my new favorite Web 2.0 blogs is Mashable.  (It’s not a new blog, just new to me.)  It’s pretty business news-y, but it’s good for hearing about stuff before it becomes buzz-worthy.
I just discovered today that they maintain a beta test invite swapping service called Mashable Invites.   I’ve registered for it, but at [...]

NaBloPoMo

Finally! An alternative for those who don’t wish to tackle the NaNoWriMo challenge: National Blog Posting Month. That I can do.
I signed up with the thought that at the very least this will be a good incentive to keep this blog rolling through that difficult “the novelty done wore off” period that happens [...]

SciTechNet

SciTechNet is a blog devoted to covering social networking systems aimed at scientists.  It would be so easy to crack a joke right now about nerdy, socially awkward scientists, but I do have some standards.  Besides, as a librarian, that would come perilously close to “glass house” and “throwing stones” territory.  I need to start [...]

The University of Chicago Faculty Blog

This morning I discovered the University of Chicago Law School’s Faculty Blog. (Georgetown Law also has one, but it does not seem to be as active. There’s probably others as well, but I just stumbled across those this morning.) Assuming that one could get enough faculty members to buy in, this would [...]

MLA Taskforce on Social Networking Software

The Medical Library Association’s Taskforce on Social Networking Software has begun a blog detailing the use and application of Web 2.0 technologies in medical libraries.  I’m going to be interested to see how other “special libraries” tackle Web 2.0 issues.
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