Thoughts on blogging: if there's really a blog born overy half second, there's got to be a lot of dreck being posted - but also a lot of interesting stuff.
A friend turned me on to a blogger who writes about everyday life in Cuba. While not overtly political, her posts about the day-to-day privations and restrictions constitute a pretty damning picture of the regime. Yoani's blog is translated into English and several other languages by volunteers, and sometimes the translation is a little rough. She recently won an award from the Columbia School of Journalism.
I spent a lot of time looking at the blogs posted on the Explorations #2 page. I was somewhat familiar with the Merlin page, since I've used it for accessing training info. It was fun ezxploring their links to other librrary blogs. It looks like lots of MD libraries are using blogs to communicate with patrons, with what seems to be with varying degrees of success. Many are not updated regularly (and with budget cuts across the board, who can spare the time and staff) but it seems crucial that if we expect these to be used by our patrons they have to be both interesting and timely.
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