Walt at Random

What do The PlanetEsme Plan, Librarian on the edge, Rambling Librarian, Card Catalog of Creativity, Shelved in the W’s and nirak.net have in common?

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.

How Many Posts?

Chapter two considers frequency–the number of posts on a blog, and how that frequency changed from 2007 to 2008. As with most other metrics in this book, the analysis and comments are based on March, April and May 2007 and 2008.

The most prolific blog had 200 fewer posts in 2008 than the most prolific blog did in 2007, and there were significantly fewer posts for the 533 countable blogs in 2008 than for the 523 countable blogs in 2007, even though more blogs were involved. (The strikeout? I’m not sure that a difference of less than 10% is significant.)

Indeed, of 523 blogs with countable posts for 2007, slightly more than 60% had at least 20% fewer posts in 2008–but slightly more than 20% had at least 20% more posts in 2008.

You’ll see the full discussion in the book.

Who’s here (part 2)

Here are 50 more blogs included in the book, with the number of index entries for each blog:

• Bibliotekarens bibliotek [4]
• Biblioteksinköp [2]
• Biblioteksrelaterat [11]
• Bibliotherapy for obsessive/compulsive Readers [2]
• Biblog – Bibliotek og IT [2]
• Bigenarian Librarian [2]
• Blisspix.net [5]
• Blog about Libraries [4]
• Blog on the Side – Darlene Fichter [5]
• blog.skagirlie.net [3]
• blogdriverswaltz.com [2]
• BlogJunction [6]
• blogwithoutalibrary.net [1]
• The Blue Skunk Blog [10]
• Bluestalking Reader [7]
• blyberg.net [4]
• The Book Guardian [3]
• Book Kitten [2]
• BookBitchBlog [6]
• Books to curl up with: a librarian’s musings [3]
• bookshelves of doom [7]
• booktruck.org [1]
• ‘Brary Web Diva [1]
• Brave New World [2]
• Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli [2]
• The Bunless Librarian [2]
• California Dreamin’ [4]
• Canuck Librarian [5]
• Card Catalog of Creativity [2]
• Carolyne’s pages of interest [1]
• Catalogablog [5]
• Cataloging Futures [2]
• The Cataloguing Librarian [1]
• Caveat Lector [4]
• The Centered Librarian [1]
• checking out and checking in [4]
• Cheeky Librarian [2]
• Chez Shoes [6]
• Chicago Librarian [3]
• Christina’s LIS Rant [3]
• Christopher Kupec’s Weblog [1]
• Chronicles of the (almost) Bald Technology Trainer [6]
• Circ and Serve [5]
• Circulatable: a Librarian’s Group [1]
• Citegeist [11]
• clifflandis.net [6]
• Closed Stacks [1]
• Coffee|Code [3]
• CogSci Librarian [6]
• ©ollectanea [5]

Hint

You’ll find the answer on pages 56-57.

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