Comments on: blogging about blogging

By: tangognat

tangognat — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:27:39 +0000

Librarianship, schibarianship!

I was half-serious, but I’m always happy to amuse people

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:08:55 +0000

Thanks for the chuckle. Whether that was your intent or not, this is a hilarious entry. I have stayed out of the debate except to do a little happy dance for being included. It seems silly for folks to get their panties in a bunch over a rather informal survey of what’s out there. Perhaps if Walt had simply done a review of the blogs and left out the metrics, no one would have gotten all worked up about it.

By: nat

nat — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:07:58 +0000

Yeah, switching from one software to another did affect rankings, especially since my archives went haywire half a dozen times. But in the end, it probably worked out for the best. I really didn’t feel like I had much worthy to contribute to librarianship. Other than the occasional parody and refgrunt.

By: tangognat

tangognat — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:03:37 +0000

That would be great though, if someone blogged about the possibility of me blogging about blogging, because I could then blog about the possibility of me blogging about someone blogging about the possiblility of me blogging about blogging. Except I would have already blogged about it.

Nat, I wonder if the combo of you changing your blogging software so frequently, switching to a photoblog and then switching back to a regular blog, made you not show up as much on bloglines or search engines compared to other blogs.

And I must say, I also tend to consider myself a blogger who works in a library who will blog about things (not always libraries), but not while I’m working at the library that I often don’t blog about.

By: nat

nat — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:18:12 +0000

I was a little sadden not to be included in that list of library blogs, until it occured to me that I myself blogged about not wanting to be a library blogger anymore. I just happen to be a blogger who works in a library who may or may not blog about the library, while not at the library, because someone working for the library may be reading the blog, in which case I may no longer work for the library, which I may or may not have blogged about, but didn’t blog from. Did that make sense?

By: Walt Crawford

Walt Crawford — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:11:01 +0000

One of my favorite disContent columns (in EContent Magazine) was “Cubed: Media about Media about Media” (September 2001); I republished it with an addendum in Cites & Insights 2:13, October 2002. It was a joke, sort of…

I promise that I won’t take the bait and blog about your blogging about the possibility of blogging about library blogs. Tempting as it is.