Comments on: So You Wanna Be A Librarian Blogger Star

By: So You Wanna be a Librarian Blogger Star at Information Innovation Exchange

So You Wanna be a Librarian Blogger Star at Information Innovation Exchange — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:39:06 +0000

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By: Lonely Blogging Librarian

Lonely Blogging Librarian — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:19:47 +0000

All well and good … IF you work in a library where the administration has not outlawed blogging. Sure, I blog anyway; but anonymously, sporadically, while hammering home the point that my blog is “unofficial” and while hardly ever mentioning the state I work in (let alone the name of my library!). Still . . . I’m afraid.

By: So you wanna be a blogstar? « Een beetje adjunct

So you wanna be a blogstar? « Een beetje adjunct — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:56:14 +0000

[...] biblioblogger. Een respectabel aantal, zeker ook als je het afzet tegen deÂ (hoogstwaarschijnlijk) meer danÂ 1.000 in het Angelsaksische taalgebied. Walt Crawford houdt dat al langere tijd goed in de peiling. Vraag [...]

By: Lanny Arvan

Lanny Arvan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:37:22 +0000

This is a different sort of comment meant for all new bloggers, not just Librarians. There are two different issues – (1) people finding the blog the first time around and (2) people coming back for more.

I believe most of your post addresses (2), but it doesn’t really do much for (1). For that, most people stumble on a blog via a Google search or because they’ve read about it on somebody else’s site who links to the blog. For both of those, linking to other blogs and making comments on other blogs are critical.

By: walt crawford

walt crawford — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:41:55 +0000

Almost certainly more than 1,000. My study includes 607–but I require a certain level of visibility and exclude blogs that began in 2008, and (except for a few historical holdovers) I’m only including English-language blogs.