Blog: Vanity Presses or Archives of Human Thought

Librarians, archivists and other information professionals are getting interested in the debate. Here is one more live discussion:

Blogs: Vanity Presses or Archives of Human Thought? Nancy McCormack & Paola Durando. COLAJ:
Canadian Online Library and Archives Journal, Volume 1, Number 1 (2005 ? - )

Blogs, or weblogs, are a highly popular and influential means of communication. Should librarians enter the blogosphere to better communicate with colleagues and users, or are blogs a waste of time? Nancy McCormack, Law Librarian at Queen's University at Kingston and her colleague Paola Durando, a Health Sciences Librarian at the same institution, argue both sides.

See my previous posts on an information professional's perpectives:

Visualizing Traffic At My Blog Via Mapping The Pathways

Visualizing Comments on Blogs

Blog-to Show

Google Trend - Another Way to Visualize the Blogosphere

Blog As A Teaching Tool

The Technique of Song and Sound Visualization -- see also: the Laughing Librarian's Blogga song

Blogging Spree: Trends in Information Visualization

What's a blog - WYSIWYG