What would a Web blog blog..

Slide 1: Blogs and Readers • What would a web blog read if a web blog could read web blogs???

Slide 2: Phil Adams: Typical reader? • Library technology • Semantic web • Digital preservation • Bumblebee conservation

Slide 3: How would I come across your blog? • Recommendation from someone • Google or some other search engine • ‘Blogroll’ or mention in another blog • Aggregator, like ‘Research blogging’

Slide 4: What would I do when I found it? • Read it? • Tag it? • Add to regular list? • Comment or blog about it?

Slide 5: Read it? Really? • Not so simple! • Skim through text • Look for pictures, summary, quotes • Click on links • Run down to the comments • Check out credentials (who are you and why should I take note?)

Slide 6: Tag and come back later • Public bookmarks in services like del.icio.us, CiteULike, Connotea • So becoming a member of a tagging community

Slide 7: Add to regular list • Feed reader in browser • Bloglines, Technorati

Slide 8: Making it work for me • Organise feeds (importance, subject) • Review and discard • Keep tags tidy (Bees, Bumblebees) • Explore shared tags

Slide 9: Adapting my browser • Del.icio.us Firefox add-on • Sage Feed reader • COinS for journal links • SIOC, semantic radar…

Slide 10: Does it work? • Saves time solving problems • Alerts me to current areas of concern