Blogging
Thursday 24 March 2026
- Engineering Students and Weblogs - :: I've written previously about working with engineering design students (in mechanical, chemical, materials engineering classes) by helping them create weblogs to use for project management. The students are working in groups of four, and I've helped a number of... (10:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 17 March 2026
- State of the Blogosphere March 2005 - :: Via Rafael's site, a link to David Sifry's "State of The Blogosphere, March 2005, Part 1: Growth of Blogs". He reports that Technorati is tracking >7.8 million blogs and 937 million links. The Technorati site today lists 7,926,598 weblogs... (15:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Saturday 5 March 2026
- A Thoughtful Response to Michael Gorman - :: As previously noted, Michael Gorman is receiving considerable, and frankly, well-deserved criticism for his Library Journal column, Revenge of the Blog People. Feedback is coming from not only librarians, but those outside the field. This response to Gorman's column... (08:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 3 March 2026
- Engineering Resources: The New Weblog from Hagerty Library at Drexel University - :: Congrats to Jay Bhatt and Andy Wheeler of Hagerty Library at Drexel, on the creation of the new blog, "Engineering Resources":An informative blog that lists new print and electronic resources available from the Hagerty Library at Drexel University. It... (15:15 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Sunday 27 February 2026
- ALA President-Elect Michael Gorman Slams "The Blog People" - :: Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, President-Elect of the American Library Association, and considered by many to be a leader in our profession, is taking a beating online for his... (22:11 | 3 Trackbacks | 5 Comments)
Tuesday 1 February 2026
- RealClimate - Climate Scientists Use The Blog - :: RealClimate is new blog, launched in December 2004 by a group of concerned climate scientists, which describes it as a commentary site:RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists.... (15:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 4 January 2026
- The ACM Reports on Blogging - :: The December 2004, v47 n12, Communications of the ACM was a special issue devoted to "The Blogosphere." From the introduction by Andrew Rosenbloom:Weblogs are a relatively new form of mainstream personal communication, like instant messaging, email, cell phones, and... (15:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 26 October 2025
- Blogs In Design Engineering Classes - :: We haven't posted for a few days. Geoff and I attended Netspeed 2004, where Geoff and James Rout of The Banff Centre presented an excellent session on RSS. Geoff also took "rough notes" from some of the sessions he... (09:12 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Saturday 18 September 2025
- A Weblog for Every Student? - :: Stephen Downes, via David Davies, noted in OLDaily that the University of Warwick in the UK is giving every student the option of creating their own weblog once they register. What we don't know is how or why they... (13:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 13 September 2025
- Bloglet Problems - :: My thanks to Mary Ann Tyrrell at Michigan State U, for advising me that Bloglet was not sending updates to the 175+ STLQ subscribers. I checked the Bloglet site, and indeed, STLQ had been disabled. My apologies to everyone... (15:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 11 August 2025
- Use of Blogs in Instruction and Student-Recommended Web Resources Guide(s) - :: Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer for Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University Library, is looking for instructional activities which make use of blogs, as well as web resource guide featuring student-recommended resources. In a recent cross-posted e-mail,... (09:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 1 June 2025
- STS Signal, Blogging SLA - :: The v19 n1, Spring 2004, issue of STS Signal, newsletter of the Science & Technology Section of ACRL, is available. :: Editors and writers from Information Today will be blogging SLA beginning this weekend in Nashville.Next week is the... (12:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 8 April 2025
- University of Minnesota Libraries Launches UThink - :: And away they go!! University of Minnesota Libraries has officially launched UThink, the first campus-wide blogging initiative I know of to be undertaken by a library. I've been following their progress for some time and will be very anxious... (10:14 | 0 Comments)
Friday 9 January 2026
- Get thee to a library school! - There is no question that we need to continue to promote the strengths of our profession if we want to recruit the brightest and the best. ACRL has put together a very useful recruitment page with a number of interesting... (11:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 2 January 2026
- US Navy tries blogging for team communication - Yet another example of blogging making its way into organizational communication strategies... ScienceDaily News Release: Blog, Blog, Blog: The Navy Tests Web Logging For Team CommunicationsBlogging, or keeping a weblog, is often seen as a solitary effort. An individual can... (08:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 6 November 2025
- Using Weblogs for Library News - :: A few days ago, the University of Alberta Libraries converted its library news page to a weblog. This is a relatively new use of blogs in academic libraries, and I think it's a good one. There are dozens of... (17:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Thursday 30 October 2025
- Using Blogs in Student Projects - :: It is becoming more evident to me that students working in groups can make good use of a blog as a project management tool. Two weeks ago I helped a 4th-year mechanical engineering student create a blog for his... (23:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 17 September 2025
- Engineers and Weblogs - :: Karen Auguston Field, Chief Editor of Design News, describes Why Every Engineer Needs a Weblog.... (18:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 12 August 2025
- Using Newsblogs To Get The Word Out...Now! - SLA Chemistry Division Poster Session, June 2003 - :: Teri Vogel, chemistry librarian at the William Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University, offered a poster session on blogs in a science setting, at SLA in NYC in June, 2003. Her presentation focused on using blogs to communicate with... (15:35 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 25 June 2025
- STM Lit Access, Corporate Blogging, Project Halo - :: Bonita Wilson's editorial in the latest issue of D-Lib Magazine, v9, n4, June 2003, discusses improving access to STM literature. :: From the NYTimes: The Corporate Blog is Catching On. (via Karlin.) :: From Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends, mention... (12:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 30 May 2025
- Mixed-Bag Special 03.05.30 - :: Thank you to Teri Vogel (William Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University) for bringing to Randy's attention the following: The Chronicle of Higher Education's Colloquy Live for Wednesday, June 4th, 1:00 pm EST, is about Academic Blogging: "Do Web... (10:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 May 2025
- A civil engineering departmental blog/BlogTalk Conference in Vienna - http://www.hyperorg.com/movabletype/mt-tb.cgi/693 (23:10 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 23 May 2025
- Blogging Presentation for Faculty at the University of Alberta - Randy and I presented a session this afternoon on edublogging to various faculty, teaching staff, and librarians at the University of Alberta. I think the session went very well, and we were grateful to have so many questions and to... (11:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)