Blogging Resources

Blogging Resources

Articles

Carver, B. Is It Time To Get Blogging? Library Journal. January 15, 2004

<http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA266428&publication=>

Curling, C. A Closer Look at Weblogs. LLRX.com, October 15, 2001.

http://www.llrx.com/columns/notes46.htm

Fichter, D. Blogging Your Life Away. ONLINE, May 2001

Fichter, D. Blogging Software for Intranet Applications. ONLINE, January 2003

Fichter, D. Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library's Services, Marketing Library Services, Nov/Dec 2003. <http://www.infotoday.com/mls/nov03/fichter.shtml

Lasnick, K. and Weber, J. Blogging: One Firm's Experience. LLRX.com. November 29, 2003 <http://www.llrx.com/features/blogsatlawfirm.htm>

Hane, P.J. Blogs Are a Natural for Librarians. NewsLink. Issue 24/October 2001

<http://www.infotoday.com/newslink/newslink0110.htm>

Pikas, C.K. Trends in Blog Searching. b/ITe. Mar/Apr 2004.Vol. 21, No. 2 (D) http://www.sla.org/division/dite/bite/MarApr2004/TrendInBlog.pdf

Web Sites: Weblogs

üWeblogs Compendium – information on blog tools, hosting, definitions, etc.

http://www.lights.ca/weblogs/

üLibrary Weblogs

http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html

üFinding Blogs, Blog Posts, RSS Feeds and RSS Entries

http://library.usask.ca/~fichter/weblog/

The Open Directory Library Weblog Section

http://pscontent.com/od2/opendirectory.php?browse=/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Weblogs/

"libraries doing good things with blogs" – lists library blogs by type of library

http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/index.shtml?links.html

Uthink – Blogs at University Libraries – offers blog space for faculty, staff, and students of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/

Blog Software Directories

Al Macintyre attempts to provide an impartial directory of different vendors that provide software for Weblogging

http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/10/03/blogSoftware.html

Weblog Compendium – Peter Scott, Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd.

List of blog software, tools, hosting

http://www.lights.ca/weblogs/tools.html

Blog Software – Hosted Solutions

Typepad (hosted)

http://www.typepad.com.

Blogger (hosted)

http://www.blogger.com

LiVEJOURNAL

http://www.livejournal.com/

Blog Software – Local Server

üFeature Comparison Chart

http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm

B2 - PHP4, and a MySQL database

http://cafelog.com/

Moveable Type - Perl cgi scripts, and a MySQL database or DB_File Perl (Berkeley DB)

http://www.movabletype.org/

PHP-Nuke – SQL database server, Apache Web server and PHP version 4.x

http://phpnuke.org

Traction – enterprise Weblog system

http://www.tractionsoftware.com/

Blogs / Links from PowerPoint

Waterboro Public Library

http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm

Stark County Law Library Blawg

http://temp.starklawlibrary.org/blog/

Answerland's Weblog – designing a multi-type virtual reference service to bring

http://radio.weblogs.com/0120082/ (INACTIVE)

UThink: Blogs at the University of Minnesota Library

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/

The SciTech Library Question (STLQ) - Randy Reichardt at the University of Alberta

http://stlq.info/

Handheld Librarian – collaborative blog

http://www.handheldlib.blogspot.com/

SiteLines - Ideas About Web Searching

http://www.workingfaster.com/sitelines/

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