Bloggery

I've added a couple more links to useful bibliographies about weblogs.  Most of these links are now dated.  I've come across very few up-to-date articles on the state of the blogosphere in the last year, especially for libraries.  Perhaps the hype is over.  It appears the years 2003-2004 were the years of growing awareness about the increasing number of blogs.  I, myself, have been blogging since 2000 so it's rather amusing to have read the hype surrounding the phenomenon.  I remember reading something on a website about blogs - the new online medium.  What is it? I asked myself.  It's like an online journal.  Great! I thought.  I was simply transferring my thoughts from paper, as a diary-writer, to a computer screen.  I thought no more of it.  Blogger back then was even more of a nightmare to use than it is now.  It's improved a lot but it should have improved a long long time ago.

I've rambled somewhat, thinking back on the past.  What I'm also finding difficult to find at the moment are up-to-date statistics on the adoption of RSS.

Again, if you see anything, do let me know.

I discovered today that an unpublished thesis I printed out last year and didn't really take much notice of at the time, is very very useful for the slightly different slant I'm adopting for my research this year.  I'm glad I printed out as much as I did.  It would be a pain to have to find them all again to re-read them.

Enough for now.  I've spent too much time browsing, again, when I should be refining my topic.  The trouble is, when I read about blogging, it makes me want to blog!