Yikes – at least Lisa was only inspired to start a recurring Music Monday post after reading my blog instead of doing something really crazy! 😉
That does bring up some random thoughts…
– I get contacted by or comments from or connect to about one new library school student (or someone contemplating going to library school) about once every month or two on average. I consider it a huge honour that people find this blog and then find it useful and/or entertaining after that first visit.
– I'm really bad about updating my list of links on the left side to the blogs of people I know (and weeding out the ones that have become inactive) since I usually add these blogs to my NetVibes account and then laze out on doing more. I'll mess around – maybe NetVibes has a widget I can embed or something that would work better.
– this is probably a longer post but I wonder if blogs are becoming a bit passe? With people getting a lot of their information from Facebook and Twitter, where do blogs fit in anymore? Longer, more thoughtful posts for one thing (I guess I'm out on that count! 😀) Niche information is still easier to find on blogs than on FB or Twitter probably. I don't know – it'll be interesting to see where blogs are at in another year or so.
– And completely unrelated, Reddit has a sub-reddit called “IAmA” where people from various walks of lives post “I Am A [Blank]” and then answer questions from other users, very similar to the idea of Living Libraries that is making the rounds in libraryland lately. Here's one “I Am A Former Children's Librarian – Ask Me Anything” which is interesting although, being Reddit, there are also a few off-topic, goofy or inappropriate questions (well, depending on your POV – it is called “Ask Me Anything” after all!)
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speaking of weeding links – I switched my blog to wordpress so the one there is inactive. I actually started blogging again too (I hadn't posted since March).
jennifer.l.cyr.wordpress.com
I don't think blogs are passé yet, or will be any time (too) soon. Like you already mentioned, they are necessary for longer posts. Also, believe it or not, not everyone is on Facebook. Although I do believe it was a post by you that first got me onto FB.
I'm not sure if blogs are completely passé, either. Certainly many who blog have migrated much of their screentime to Twitter and Spacebook for the dialogue that can occur there, but as the other commenters noted, the blog (and its rss feed) still is a great way to let ourselves tease out a thought into a longer argument and then see what the world has to say.. Anyway..
I get an error mesage when I click on that link that says “Warning! Domain mapping upgrade for this domain not found. Please login and go to the Domains Upgrades page of your blog to use this domain.”
I don't see an obvious typo so can you re-post your blog URL?
Thanks,
Jason
Maybe blogs are passe for the “quick hits” type of posts that are a better fit on Facebook or Twitter? (I still like to do those kinds of things on my blog though because then I control it, I know it's archived whereas, some of the stuff I posted on Facebook a year ago – I have no idea how to find it again.)