http://walt.lishost.org/2009/08/library-blogs-and-the-curiosity-penalty/ The library voice of the radical middle. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:45:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://walt.lishost.org/2009/08/library-blogs-and-the-curiosity-penalty/comment-page-1/#comment-39667 Walt Crawford Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:21:20 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/2009/08/library-blogs-and-the-curiosity-penalty/#comment-39667 Rick: I think that's a lot of it. Oddly, I'm the reverse when it comes to meeting people I've been acquainted with online--I find it easier to converse with them. Which, for a shy guy like me, is saying something. Rick: I think that’s a lot of it. Oddly, I’m the reverse when it comes to meeting people I’ve been acquainted with online–I find it easier to converse with them. Which, for a shy guy like me, is saying something.

]]> http://walt.lishost.org/2009/08/library-blogs-and-the-curiosity-penalty/comment-page-1/#comment-39666 Rick Mason Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:55:05 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/2009/08/library-blogs-and-the-curiosity-penalty/#comment-39666 "Admittedly, I find official library blogs a whole lot less interesting than liblogs (blogs by library-related people), maybe because I'm not in a library." I feel the same way. For me it relates to the personality that comes through the writing. "Official" blogs don't usually have as distinctive a voice - they tend to be announcements and such. "Liblogs" more often leave you feeling as if you know the creator, at least to some extent (which I find makes it slightly awkward to meet them in person for the first time). “Admittedly, I find official library blogs a whole lot less interesting than liblogs (blogs by library-related people), maybe because I’m not in a library.”
I feel the same way. For me it relates to the personality that comes through the writing. “Official” blogs don’t usually have as distinctive a voice – they tend to be announcements and such. “Liblogs” more often leave you feeling as if you know the creator, at least to some extent (which I find makes it slightly awkward to meet them in person for the first time).

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