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The Blogosphere As I’ve Been Experiencing It
November 4, 2007
Having blogged now for several months, I thought I’d do a little research about blogging as a … practice? mission? sport? So I did some web noodling, and found this entry for the Top 10 Events for Bloggers at Mashable.com… none of which I’ve ever heard of, except for New Media Expo. Pursuing my noodling, however, I did learn many new terms, such as BarCamp, Foo Camp, Foobar, and FUBAR – none of which are of interest to me at present (and aren’t likely to be in future, unless I really need to get into metasyntactic variables).
The Top 10 article starts out by stating that “blogging can be a lonely business,” but that hasn’t been my experience at all. One of the best parts of doing my blog has been the interest colleagues have shown in sending neat items my way, and by colleagues, I now number folks from around the world, as well as those sitting next to me at the reference desk in Widener Library, here in Cambridge. They’ve all been generous in putting me onto interesting e-tidbits, and participating one way or another with me in the blog. I thought I had a fairly extensive acquaintance throughout library land already, but e-Views has brought me into conversations with library folks in China, the Middle East, Europe, and South America, expanding my social network considerably.
So while I’m not likely to be attending those Top 10 Blogger Events in the near future, I’d like to extend an in medias res “thank you!” to the new – and continuing – colleagues I’ve met virtually in the course of blogging. Please do continue to send me tips and questions, in blog comments or e-mail (claguard@fas.harvard.edu). I enjoy hearing from you very much!
More as it happens,
Cheryl
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on November 4, 2007 | Comments (2)
