Just the kind of thing that a fine university with a revered library school could spearhead. Say, for example, somewhere like Urbana-Champaign, just to choose a name at random.

There have been other discussion streams lately about MLS holders who think they shouldn’t call themselves librarians if they no longer work in a library. That strikes me as silly (as far as I’m concerned, my wife’s still a librarian even though she works at RLG, and the other MLS-holding people here are librarians as well), but people make their own choices.

“Brog” is already a word, but it means “to poke or prod with a pointed instrument”. That fits pretty well with what we’re talking about here!

I read posts from certain blogs differently than I would read the exact same text if it came from a different blog. (If The Nation and the National Review and, say, FHM all ran precisely the same essay, it would have different significance in each case.) And, to be sure, if I choose to participate in the conversation (where that’s feasible), that means going to the blog itself.

So, for my own usage, “libfeeds” wouldn’t say it. They’re not feeds; they’re blogs that I read via feeds. Just as books that I read from the library are still books, not libtexts.

In one way, this is all silliness. In another way, it’s not–and even if it is silliness, well, we need some silliness…