Walt at Random

What do uncaged librarian, User Education Resources for Librarians, geeky artist librarian, Not So Distant Future and Sites and Soundbytes have in common with a liblog noted in an earlier question?

The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008: Introductory Offer

You’ll find the answer and more in The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008: A Lateral Look.

This 285-page 6×9 trade paperback looks at 607 liblogs (nearly all English-language) and, for most of them, how they’ve changed from 2007 to 2008.

It’s the most comprehensive look at liblogs ever done–and the only one I know of that shows how they’re changing from year to year.

From now through January 15, 2009, and only from Lulu, The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008 is available for $22.50 plus shipping.

On January 16 or thereabouts, that price will go up to $35.00. If and when the book is available on Amazon, it will immediately sell for $35.00.

Chapter 4: Conversations

Is a blog without comments really a blog? Of course it is–but comments are important to many, maybe most liblogs. This chapter looks at total comments per blog and the more interesting figure, conversational intensity: Average number of comments per post. As usual, we also look at how things change from 2007 to 2008.

One blog in 2007 had more than 1,000–and more than 1,500–comments over three months. Two entirely different blogs had more than 1,000 (but less than 1,300) comments in the 2008 study period. And roughly two out of every five blogs had significantly higher conversational intensity in 2008 than in 2007.

There’s lots more about comments and conversational intensity in the book.

Who’s there, part 4

Fifty more liblogs and the number of times each appears in the index:

• the.effing.librarian [10]
• eFoundations [8]
• e-klumme [3]
• Electric Forest [2]
• Endless Hybrids [2]
• EngLib [2]
• Enquiring Minds Want to Know [1]
• Epist [1]
• etc. [8]
• Everybody’s Libraries [2]
• explodedlibrary bunker [1]
• explodedlibrary.info [3]
• Extensible Librarian [4]
• Family Man Librarian [5]
• Fear and Loathing in a Library [1]
• Feel-good Librarian [2]
• Feltänkt? [3]
• Feral Library Tales [3]
• Fiddling Librarian 3.0 [1]
• Filipino Librarian [8]
• Foxylibrarian.com [3]
• The FRBR Blog [2]
• Free Government Information (FGI) [7]
• Free Range Librarian [9]
• Frequently Answered Questions [1]
• From the Inside Out [1]
• from your science librarian’s desk [1]
• A Fuse #8 Production [3]
• Game On: Games in Libraries [3]
• Gargoyles loose in the library [4]
• Gather No Dust [5]
• The Gay Librarian [5]
• geeky artist librarian [3]
• Gemini Moon [5]
• Ghostfooting [2]
• the goblin in the library [1]
• The Good Library Blog [2]
• Government Info Pro [6]
• The Green Kangaroo [2]
• Grumpator [10]
• Guardienne of the Tomes [3]
• The Gypsy Librarian [6]
• The Hag’s Mouth [2]
• The Handheld Librarian [2]
• hangingtogether.org [3]
• Hapax Legomenon [1]
• Head Tale [5]
• Hectic Pace [1]
• Hedgehog Librarian: Prickly, Nocturnal, InfoDiva [9]
• Helenes hengekøye [4]

Hint

You’ll find the answer on page 37. If you’re wondering, the questions never (so far) relate directly to the chapters discussed.

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