Posts Tagged as ‘blogs’

April 25, 2008

Friday Levity: Life Cycle of a Blog & Choose Your Own Adventure

Since today is Friday, I thought a little bit of useless information is needed. It is especially needed to divert students away from their studies for a few minutes since it is finals week here.
With that in mind, the first thing you can check out is an interesting graphic called The Life Cycle of [...]

April 7, 2008

Fair use & photos on blogs

Over this weekend, I received an email regarding one of my blog posts. Before I get to that, the back story:
A while back, I had posted information about a new boardgame called “Bookchase.” The reason I posted it was for a little humor and because it had something to do with libraries. [...]

April 3, 2008

Books & Blogs: Old & New Media

The last post that I did was about why I write this blog and as luck would have it, I read two interesting articles on blogs that I wanted to share.
The first one, I think I’ve referenced before. It is about an author, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, who wrote his book in blog format. In [...]

April 1, 2008

Why do I write?

It’s been a little more than a year now since I started this blog. It started out on a different blog system and got transferred to WordPress in June of last year. And, I think I’ve had fairly good success attracting people to this site. I have been referenced on “Googlization of [...]

December 5, 2007

Are blogs scholarly?

I’ve been thinking about blogs and how they’re used today. Since I’m a librarian one question that immediately comes to mind is whether blogs can be cited in a paper. Of course they can, but the question is whether a professor thinks that they are worthy of inclusion. (By the way, the [...]