Here’s an even sillier question–and one that you don’t need the book to answer, just resources already available or this series of promotional posts (yes, I’m writing them ahead of time; no, I don’t plan to be doing real blogging on Thursday).
In what respect is an alphabetic list of liblogs wildly different than typical alphabetic lists?
I believe The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008: A Lateral Look is a worthwhile book, and it’s only $22.50 from now through January 15, 2009, and only at Lulu. 285 pages, 6×9 trade paperback (60lb. cream book stock), wraparound cover photo taken somewhere outside Christchurch, New Zealand…
Oh yes, and the price goes up to $35 on or about January 16–and will always be $35 if/when it’s available on Amazon.
Chapter 5, “Getting the picture,” is about visuals in liblogs–videos drawings, charts, that sort of things. Many blogs don’t use them at all; many use very few. This is the one metric that won’t be tracked in possible future updates–but I think you may find the relatively brief chapter interesting.
Who’s here, part 5
Fifty-one this time, again with the number of appearances in the index (and in the book):
- Heretical Librarian [5]
- HeyJude [10]
- Hidden Peanuts [5]
- Hip Librarians Book Blog [3]
- The History Librarian [1]
- The Horseless Library [1]
- The Hot Librarian [2]
- Ian Snowley’s blog [1]
- iLibrarian [5]
- The Illustrated Librarian [5]
- The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics [7]
- Impromptu Librarian [3]
- in forming thoughts [1]
- The In Season Christian Librarian [1]
- Incoherent Scribblings [6]
- The Industrial Librarian [1]
- Info Career Trends [3]
- Info Junkie [2]
- info NeoGnostic [3]
- Infoblog [3]
- InfoCommuner’s Info Harbor [2]
- infodoodads [5]
- Infogestores [1]
- Infomancy [1]
- InfoMatters [4]
- InfoPill [1]
- Information Junk [6]
- information literacy by example [2]
- The Information Literacy Land of Confusion [5]
- Information Literacy meets Web 2.0 [2]
- Information Literacy Weblog [8]
- Information Research – ideas and debate [1]
- Information Takes Over [1]
- Information Technology Division of the Ohio Library Council [3]
- Information Wants To Be Free [1]
- informationatrix [1]
- Informationoverlord [2]
- InfoSciPhi [1]
- InfoShare [1]
- InfoTangle [1]
- Infotoday Blog [4]
- Inherent Vice [3]
- Innovate [4]
- Inquiring Librarian [4]
- internetbrus.com [2]
- Internetsøgning [2]
- Into the Stacks [3]
- The Invisible Library [3]
- The Invisible Web Weblog [2]
- ishush [3]
- The Itinerant Librarian [6]
By the way…
The list above should make it clear that the number of appearances in the book has nothing to do with importance or quality…or, for that matter, visibility. (One chapter discusses visibility, but I don’t discuss individual blogs.)
A qualitative study would be much longer and far beyond my abilities or willingness to judge. This book looks at quantifiable measures only.
