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ISSN 1460-7239 16th May 2002 No.112
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IN THIS ISSUE
EDITORIAL
MY FAVOURITE TIPPLES
From Simon White
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JOBS
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Corporate Finance Information Officer
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TIPS ARTICLE
"Video Games Industry Research"
By John Kirriemuir
BOOKSHELF
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FEATURE ARTICLE
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EDITORIAL
Talk to anyone about pay and they're sure to have an opinion. However,
such conversations often quickly change to one of status, quality
of life, job security, benefits, etc. These are often of equal or
greater importance to the basic salary someone receives.
This shift in focus is what happened at the Bar in response to my last
Editorial about remuneration for information professionals
<http://www.freepint.com/go/b17417>. It started out with tales of low
pay and redundancy, and calls to associations and publications to
reject low-paid job vacancy advertising; how IT and Marketing
departments have hijacked the intranet; how globalisation and
deregulation have caused localised corporate information centres to
close; that there is a widespread misconception that employees should
be able to get their own data from the Web for free.
However, the counter-responses soon arrived from those with different
outlooks. Respondents highlighted the importance of marketing our
skills and services, and learning to blow our own trumpets. We must be
able to measure and demonstrate the value of the service we provide.
Poster Diana Nutting added, "You can make your own status by making
yourself indispensable to the decision makers".
Links to relevant resources were added to the discussion, such as
Amelia Kassel's recent article "Practical Tips to Help You Prove Your
Value" <http://www.freepint.com/go/b17593>. Amelia has also spoken to
a number of utility librarians who have reinvented themselves as
competitive intelligence or market research specialists or analysts,
and who are enjoying increased status. The 'marketing/value movement'
inevitably gives way to opportunities for increased remuneration.
A different view was that perhaps we should all be going freelance to
market ourselves as contractors, and maybe there's a need for an
association to support freelance information professionals.
Alternatively, Free Pinters suggested there should be a press campaign to
publicise how the information professional's role is changing, such as
how we've taken on the role of trainer and mentor.
Throughout the discussion there was a general acceptance that a job is
no longer for life. Indeed, my colleague Simon stuck his neck out in
last week's Pub Crawl by saying that whenever he's tried to explain
knowledge management to people, they've seen it as a way for employers
to "debrief employees before ejecting them from the organisation".
There have already been responses to this at the Bar, but what do you
think? Does KM have a bearing on remuneration, and how is it perceived
within organisations? Post your responses to Simon's comments at
<http://www.freepint.com/go/b17672>.
Thank you to everyone who posted to the Bar about remuneration. It has
been a very interesting topic, and I have been informed off-list that
a number of people and organisations are going to try to address some
of the issues raised. If you would like to read all the postings,
then visit <http://www.freepint.com/go/b17417>.
A message we picked up from the discussion was that although Free
Pint is good at getting people together online, it should be doing
more to help people meet face-to-face. Hear, hear. The planning has
come to fruition with our 'Content Management Exchange' in June at the
Free Pint offices in West London. The afternoon event is about managing
and implementing a content management system, and is co-sponsored by
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I really hope you enjoy today's Free Pint, and get a lot out of it
and the discussions at the Bar. All we ask is that you help us to
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this issue to them.
Cheers
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MY FAVOURITE TIPPLES
From Simon White
* <http://www.bowest.com.au/library.html> - The essential theories
and formulae that keep the world of electrical engineering on track
* <http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm> - A page covering
every measurement conversion factor any budding engineer, student
or DIY enthusiast could ever need.
* <http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html> - A
surprisingly interesting site from NASA which will identify the
position of spacecraft in the night sky depending on your location.
* <http://www.theregister.co.uk/> - News and analysis covering the
entire IT sector, interspersed with more light hearted stories.
Definitely more entertaining than your average news site.
* <http://www.movie-mistakes.com/> - The ultimate resource for the
cynical movie watcher. A comprehensive list of the errors which
should have never made it out of the editing room.
Simon is an engineering student at Selwyn College, Cambridge
<http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk>. His (rare) free time is consumed by
films, music and a sideline in website design.
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It has been claimed that the promise of lifelong employment that
employers used to give to employees has been replaced by a promise of
lifelong learning. It is further claimed that the use of Knowledge
Management (KM) tools and techniques is a part of this lifelong
learning and that it is for the mutual benefit of employer and
employee (17671).
Someone has defended these employers and their use of KM. But I still
don't see how employees whose jobs have been outsourced, whose
companies have downsized or whose employment status has effectively
been casualised, can benefit from company databases, intranets and
training programmes.
If you do wish to share your knowledge you can do so, and get paid
for it, with Google Answers (17504). But if you are interested in
swapping your knowledge for other people's knowledge, you can get
free answers in the Free Pint Bar. We'd be especially pleased to hear
from people who know about broadband content in the South West of
England (17514), developing library databases (17579), risk
management (17506), setting up an online consultancy (17695) and
rental property in Tenerife (17526).
Whether you want to read what's been said or add your contribution,
there were also queries about posting copyrighted material in public
forums (17586), marketing design services (17632), researching
journals (17418), steel and glass suppliers for civil construction
projects (17497), information auditing (17603), watermarking software
for audio-visual material (17554) and the benefits of spam (17653).
Queries about attitudes to risk (17517), numbers of doctors by
country (17680) and rankings of institutional investors (17551) have
been answered but there are some unanswered postings about clothing
markets in Greece (17606), industrial production in the UK (17446),
offline gambling in Europe (17500) and the percentage of costs that
should be allocated for Web development (17678).
Resources recommended in the last two weeks cover publishing best
sellers (17596), digital library suppliers (17607), women working in
offshore oil and gas jobs (17647), European drowning statistics
(17464) and international law (17694). And I reviewed a useful
language reference site (17441), a technical help site (17683) and
some international business directories (17569).
Most techie questions have been answered but there are some
outstanding ones about add-ons for Sage software (17533), Google
redirect scripts (17525) and submitting your site to search engines
(17693). Others were about database solutions (17589), URL
redirection (17414), software for recording download volumes (17578),
on-site search tools (17485), Win2k automatically dialling the ISP
(17443), achieving high search engine rankings (17565) and the BBC's
search engine (17664).
Miscellaneous queries have been about getting your art into galleries
(17476), UK based occupational health and fitness newsletters
(17690), using mobile phones abroad (17493) and remuneration for
information professionals (17417), a very popular thread!
Finally, after a constant barrage of requests for Latin translations
for over a year (17412, 17511, 17535), we've decided to call a halt
to them and delete any new ones that appear (17605). They are not the
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"Video Games Industry Research"
By John Kirriemuir
First, a question. How many of the following have you heard of: Space
Invaders, Pacman, Atari, ZX Spectrum, Nintendo, Tetris, Mario, Lara
Croft, Playstation, Metal Gear Solid, Sega, Game Boy, Xbox, Halo, Jet
Set Radio? Score 0-3 and much of this article may come as a surprise.
Score 4-9, and you have probably been aware of mentions of video games
in the press, but are not a player. 10-12 and you are, or have been, a
video game player; 13-15 and you are probably reading this while
taking a short break from your latest game.
The global computer and video game industry, generating revenue of
over 20 billion US dollars a year, forms a major part of the
entertainment industry. The sales of major games are counted in
millions (and these are for software units that often cost 30 to 50 UK
pounds each), meaning that total revenues often match or exceed cinema
movie revenues. Game playing is widespread; surveys collated by
organisations such as the Interactive Digital Software Association
<http://www.idsa.com/releases/4-21-2000.html> indicate that up to 60
per cent of people in developed countries routinely play computer or
video games, with an average player age in the mid to late twenties,
and only a narrow majority being male. Add on those who play the
occasional game of Solitaire or Minesweeper on the PC at work, and you
are observing a phenomenon more common than buying a newspaper, owning
a pet, or going on holiday abroad.
Why this popularity? Essentially, most people spend much of their time
playing games of some kind or another. Make it through traffic lights
before they turn red; catch the train or bus before it leaves. Can you
complete the crossword, or answer the questions correctly on Who Wants
To Be A Millionaire or The Weakest Link before the contestants?
"Office politics" form a continuous, real-life strategy game which
many people play (whether they want to or not), with player-definable
goals such as "increase salary to next level", "become the boss",
"score points off a rival colleague and beat them to that promotion"
or "get a better job elsewhere". Gaming philosophers who frequent some
of the many game-related online forums
<http://www.futureforums.co.uk/edge/> periodically compare aspects of
gaming to "real life" - with the key difference being that when
"game over" is reached in real life, there is no "restart game"
option ...
But video games? Such entertainment and culture is not new, being
available for home use for over 30 years <http://www.icwhen.com/>.
Rapid advances in graphics, processing power, game design and
complexity have resulted in contemporary games rendering those of even
just a few years ago crude and simplistic in comparison. Games are
designed to sell, and therefore to be attractive, challenging, mind-
engaging, stimulating, increasing curiosity, and inviting further
exploration and an urge for "just one more go" - factors that have
resulted in interest from the education, teaching and learning
sectors; but more on this later.
Video games are most often found on video gaming consoles that plug
into your television. These are produced by three well-known
companies; Microsoft (who make the Xbox: <http://www.xbox.com/>), Sony
(Playstation and Playstation2: <http://www.playstation.com/>), and Nintendo
(GameCube: <http://www.nintendo.com/systems/gcn/gcn_overview.jsp> and
the handheld portable GameBoy series: <http://www.gameboyadvance.co.uk/>).
The PC is a major host of games, many of which make use of the
standard keyboard and mouse input configuration for games such as
strategy simulations. Other media devices, such as Interactive TV,
handheld PCs and Palm Pilots, and the newer generations of mobile
phone, play host to increasingly complex games - basically, where
there is a processor and a screen, so there is the potential for games
which is usually quickly filled.
It is important to note the increasing complexity of the
aforementioned video gaming consoles, which increasingly resemble
specialised, performance enhanced PCs - though without the cost,
instability, long start-up waits, complexity and need for upgrades.
The Xbox, for example, contains a hard drive for saving game positions
and tracks from your favourite CDs, which then form the background
music of various games. These consoles also offer broadband
capabilities for fast online gaming play, though how they will work in
practice when operational over the next few years remains to be seen.
Currently, the PC, Macintosh and Sega Dreamcast video game console are
the devices to use for online gaming.
This particular area of the games sector is of great relevance to the
library and information community. Online gaming has actually been
around for quite a few years on the PC, and was successfully
implemented through a game called Phantasy Star Online on the
Dreamcast console. The more popular online games, such as Everquest,
allow complex and simultaneous in-game interaction between many
thousands (and sometimes tens of thousands) of people (irrespective of
physical location). In these games, people can exchange information
and items, fight, move through a virtual world and observe the actions
of others.
In an office where I recently worked, one person was playing such a
game on his PC, interacting and communicating simultaneously with
large numbers of players from around the (real) world in a shared,
common (virtual) world. At the adjoining PC, another colleague was
engaged in a long-term struggle to build a distributed bibliographic
system, allowing a small number of people to simultaneously search a
common database of the stock of several libraries. The technological
and informatics parallels between the two systems - and which was the
more successful implementation - were striking. Unfortunately, to date
and to its loss, the informatics sector has not deeply investigated
online gaming to see which techniques, technologies and concepts are
transferable to systems using information access, discovery and
management.
The last few years have seen an increase in the number of game-related
courses in academic institutions, both in the UK
<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~steve/games/gamesCourses.html> and further
afield <http://www.igda.org/Endeavors/Outreach/Students-Newbies/
students-newbies_schools.htm>.
Most contain some element of game design or programming; demand comes
from the large number of prospective game developers, and companies
faced with the continuing shortage of skilled staff.
Skills gained on these courses are transferable to other technological
areas, such as health and medicine (e.g. body, illness and drug action
simulation), the military (strategic, battle and weapon simulation,
without costly weapons or friendly-fire injuries), and business and
management (economic and management simulations). Grades for
admittance on such courses are usually high, and applications
oversubscribed. In the UK, several universities are planning new game-
related courses for the 2002 or 2003 academic years.
In addition to courses, a number of game-related research centres have
emerged of late in institutions such as Abertay in Dundee
<http://www.iccave.com/>, Liverpool John Moores
<http://www.icdc.org.uk/>, Bournemouth
<http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/>, Manchester
<http://www.digiplay.org.uk/index2.php> and Teeside. Numerous other
game-related projects and research groups are scattered around
universities and colleges.
It is important to note that academic research is not confined to the
programming side of video games. Academic subjects increasingly
involved with the gaming sector include:
- the arts (graphics and character design)
- music (soundtracks and special effects)
- history (providing accurate detail from factual events)
- geography (landscapes and settings)
- literature (plot and script construction)
- biology and the life sciences (accurate plant and animal growth and
behaviour)
- sports sciences (how athletes run)
- built and urban sciences (building design and layout)
- engineering (vehicle dynamics and handling)
- sociology (effects of games on society...)
- psychology (...and on the individual)
Such involvement has benefits for all parties. For academics, revenue
is generated, staff kept on, and research used for practical purposes
in the real world. Games companies receive relevant input, with the
backing of academic expertise.
Not surprisingly, this research has led to a steadily increasing
collection of articles, papers and reports, which a growing number of
people and organisations are attempting to categorise and index:
<http://www.game-culture.com/journals.html>,
<http://www.game-culture.com/articles.html>,
<http://www.knowledge.hut.fi/projects/games/gamelinks.html#Papers>,
<http://www.digiplay.org.uk/books.php> and
<http://www.gamasutra.com/features/>.
One of the most exciting areas where academia and the gaming sector
overlap is that of education and learning. This can take one of two
forms: using conventional computer and video games to enhance
learning, or using gaming technologies and techniques to design and
produce more effective learning software and material.
A number of research groups and centres are making progress with
various aspects of gaming and education, such as the E-GEMS group in
Canada <http://www.cs.ubc.ca/research/e-gems.htm> and the Games To
Teach project in the MIT <http://cms.mit.edu/games/education/about.html>.
In the UK, TEEM (Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia) have
investigated the use and educational value of computer games both at
home and at school <http://www.teem.org.uk/howtouse/resources/>,
while BECTa (British Educational Communications and Technology agency)
have carried out similar investigations and produced guidelines on how
computer games can support learning
<http://www.becta.org.uk/technology/infosheets/html/computergames.html>.
It is encouraging to see an increasing number of educational and
ICT funding bodies, such as the JISC (Joint Information Systems
Committee) <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/techwatch/reports/tsw_02-01.rtf>
either monitoring or funding exploratory or research work in this
area.
In addition to official exploration and research of non-gaming uses of
computer and video games, and gaming consoles, there are plenty of
people who take a great delight in "making stuff do things it wasn't
designed to do". As soon as a video game console is released, a
community of people determined to take it apart, write their own
programmes and increase the functionality, springs up. The hand-held
GameBoy Advance, which is cheap and easy to develop software for (in
an unofficial capacity), is the device of choice for many such
developers <http://c.webring.com/hub?ring=thegameboyadvanc&id=2&hub>.
For example, one student has developed a web server on his GameBoy
Advance as part of his final year undergraduate project
<http://www.fivemouse.com/>.
This article has scratched the surface of a number of game-related
issues. However, to really appreciate games and their potential
application in other areas, it is best to simply "play more". Games
recommended by the author are Ico (Playstation 2), The Sims and
Operation Flashpoint (PC), Advance Wars (GameBoy Advance), Halo
(Xbox), and Super Monkey Ball (GameCube). Highly recommended - as it
is my favourite game :-) - is Jet Set Radio Future (Xbox).
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to education and the learning process. In younger days he worked in a
number of organisations and services in the UK academic digital
information sector, including UKOLN, the ILRT, and OMNI. On rainy
days, John plays video games; on sunnier days, he explores the
Scottish Highlands and Islands, taking digital pictures. Three of his
ten favourite beaches in the world are in the Outer Hebrides. His web
site, containing details of his work and publications, can be found at
<http://www.ceangal.com/>.
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"Small Business Websites that Work:
Get Online to Grow Your Company"
Written by Sean McManus
Reviewed by Clive Hawkins
It is sometimes said that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
However, for a non-technical person to cope with setting up and
developing an online business, no knowledge can be even worse! Many
small business owners have taken the plunge online and relied on
others to provide the 'know-how' with varying degrees of success. With
so many pitfalls awaiting the unwary, creating a successful web
business can be a daunting task. Books such as this one, however, can
go some way to helping small business owners or managers in larger
companies - whose skills lie in other areas - to avoid floundering in
uncertainty and technical confusion when briefing suppliers.
There are many books that cover much of the same ground as Sean
McManus', yet this one stands out from others I've read because
firstly it's by an English author - often a novelty in this field -
but also because it is easy to read, well organised and practical.
There's a lot of information packed into just over 200 pages, but the
book's clear design, the avoidance of technical jargon, and the
liberal use of checklists and summaries make it a pleasure to read
from start to finish, or to dip into a relevant section. There is also
an accompanying website which includes updated information and web
links <http://www.sbwtw.com/>.
Within 11 chapters all the main elements of putting a business online
are covered, often in quite brief detail, but enough to highlight the
key things to think about or be aware of. There's a particularly good
chapter on how to offer good customer service, plus useful sections on
legal and ethical issues, as well as measuring the success of the
website by using tracking software. The chapter on web design also
takes an interesting angle by considering the pros and cons between
doing it yourself, getting a friend to do it, outsourcing the work, or
creating an in-house design team.
Several chapters deal with advertising and marketing. The use of
affiliate schemes and advertising offers plenty of tips to help
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them. Certainly, if you have no idea of the difference between a
domain or a host, or are unsure about a virus e-mail compared to a
viral one, this book will provide some much-needed enlightenment!
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1995. He set up and runs The Web Search Workshop
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consultancy offering a tailored search engine optimisation and
placement service on the web's most popular search tools. The company
also offers in-house training support to help businesses improve their
online marketing and to make the best use of search tools. Clive has
also been a regular contributor to Practical Internet magazine,
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"Weblogs and Blogging - Part 2"
By Laurel A. Clyde
Examples of Weblogs
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As noted in the first part of this article
<http://www.freepint.com/issues/020502.htm#feature>, many
commentators have suggested that Blogger and similar programs have
resulted in even more unreliable or mindless content on the Web than
there was before.
However, Tim Archer <http://www.tradequeerthings.com/online.html>,
while acknowledging the truth of this observation, prefers to think
that weblogs are an empowering phenomenon; they make it possible, he
says, for "everyone" to publish and to have other people read and
respond to what they say. Well, you have been warned! At one end of
the scale, there are weblogs that provide daily news updates from
authoritative commentators in their field. At the other end are a
range of personal weblogs whose titles, such as Absolute Piffle
<http://www.nwlink.com/~rxg/piffle.html>, might be said to accurately
reflect their content.
Having said that, though, there are days when reading about someone
else's thoughts while walking their dog in a city on the other side
of the world does have appeal. Nevertheless, "Many weblogs are pointless,
self-indulgent, or interesting only to a small circle of people"
<http://www.edventure.com/conversation/article.cfm?Counter=7444662>.
Some weblogs wither once the first flush of enthusiasm passes, while
others go from strength to strength, attracting contributions and
feedback from experts and interested Internet surfers. The weblogs
discussed below are all maintained by experts in the topic covered by
the weblog; all appear to have the potential to continue to attract an
audience.
Jerz's Online and Offline Literacy Weblog
<http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Curric/jerzdg/writing/index.html> from
Dennis G. Jerz of the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, covers
"Links to writing resources, as well as articles, essays, and amusing
Web pages related to literacy (both online and offline)". The
resources are wide-ranging and come from newspapers, popular
magazines, academic journals, other weblogs, searches of the Web, and
students. The annotations are informative and offer comment as well as
summaries. There are archives going back to 1999.
The Financial Applications Security Weblog from Pelle Braendgaard
<http://radio.weblogs.com/0103213/> covers "The latest standards,
software and policies affecting the security of financial
applications". Although the author claims to "babble on a bit", he
provides informed and informative discussion of a range of issues
associated with security while dealing with specific standards and
applications. This is a relatively new weblog but one that has already
been the subject of favourable comment.
Other weblogs that stand out include BookNotes "Books,
libraries, preservation, digital convergence, music, politic" from
Craig Jensen <http://booknotes.weblogs.com/>, The Scholarly
Electronic Publishing Weblog from Charles W. Bailey Jr.
<http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm>, The Internet Scout Weblog
from the Internet Scout Project <http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/weblog/>,
Privacy Digest from Paul Hardwick <http://PrivacyDigest.com/>, and
New Media Musings from J.D. Lasica <http://jd.manilasites.com/>.
Library and Information Science Weblogs
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"Blogs are a natural for librarians" says Paula J. Hane
<http://www.infotoday.com/newslink/newslink0110.htm>; certainly
librarians have created a number of useful and well-regarded weblogs
that cover either the broad field of library and information science,
or specialist aspects of librarianship. Other weblogs are aimed at
particular groups of people within the library and information
professions - new librarians, for example. In addition, libraries have
created weblogs for the benefit of their staff or users.
LISNews.com (Library and Information Science News)
<http://lisnews.com/> has contributions from a number of people on
any day, along with comments. In addition to providing good coverage
of library and information science in general, it has items related to
the Internet in libraries, intellectual property, filtering and
censorship, freedom of information, electronic publishing, search
engines, book news and awards, and information literacy. Harry Potter
stories have their own special icon, so often do they come up.
Library News Daily <http://www.lights.com/scott/>, created by Peter
Scott, has postings about new Internet information sources and
material on the Internet related to libraries, including information
on forthcoming conferences. The site has links to other resources that
Peter has created, including A Complete Guide to Weblogs
<http://www.lights.com/weblogs/> and a page of links to Library
Weblogs, arranged by country <http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html>.
Steven M. Cohen maintains the Library Stuff weblog
<http://www.librarystuff.net/> which has links to news items from
Internet- and print-based news services, and a useful list of his
favorite weblogs. Librarian.net <http://www.librarian.net/> from
Jessamyn West also provides general coverage of librarianship with
links to current information. Gary Price's Virtual Acquisition Shelf
and News Desk <http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/> is a great way to
keep up with quality Internet resources. The usefulness of this weblog
is enhanced through a free weekly "Highlights" mailing list.
Among the more specialized library-related weblogs are, for example,
Roma's Reference Roundup <http://library.usask.ca/blogger/ref/> from
Roma Kail at the University of Saskatchewan Library, and The Handheld
Librarian (librarians working with handheld computer technology)
<http://handheldlib.blogspot.com/>. For light relief from the serious
business of librarianship, you can try The Laughing Librarian
<http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/> from Brian Smith.
Weblogs that have been created by libraries include Liblog: A
Library Weblog from the Redwood City Public Library , California
<http://www.ci.redwood-city.ca.us/library/news/liblog/>; What's
Happening in the Richland College Library , Texas
<http://rllibrary.blogspot.com/>; the Leddy weblog from the Leddy
Library, University of Windsor, Canada
<http://cronus.uwindsor.ca/units/leddy/leddy3.nsf/Weblog?OpenPage>;
h2Oboro lib blog from Waterboro Public Library, Maine
<http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm>; and the etc. weblog of
Gateshead Public Library in the United Kingdom
<http://refdesk.weblogger.com/>.
Weblog Search Engines and Directories
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Finding out about quality weblogs can be a matter of
serendipity. There is no single source of information about all
weblogs. Nevertheless, a number of search engines and directories
provide information about, and lists of, weblogs. In addition, weblog
creation sites such as Blogger <http://www.blogger.com/> maintain
lists of weblogs that have been created using their service.
Daypop <http://www.daypop.com/> is a specialist search engine that
can be used to search either weblogs or news sources or both. However,
the note on the home page, "Search 6800 news sites and weblogs for
current events and breaking news (16 March 2002), while impressive at
first glance, indicates that any weblog search is being carried out on
a tiny proportion of the available weblogs. Daypop has a "Top 40" list
of news stories of the day (including stories culled from weblogs),
and its own Daypop Weblog.
.blog <http://pontoblog.tk/> is a new (2002) weblog directory that
lists the weblogs by categories, by countries, by languages, by the
number of visits, by the number of comments, by updates, and other
criteria. It is currently available in English and Portuguese with
other languages "coming soon", though when I last visited the site on
24 March 2002, there were still some problems with non-English
language character sets. There were 999 weblogs listed on that date.
Yahoo!'s Directory of Weblogs provides an alphabetical list that can
also be retrieved as a list by geographical location
<http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Communications/Writing/
Journals_and_Diaries/Online_Journals_and_Diaries/Web_Logs/>.
GBlogs <http://gblogs.threadnaught.net/> is a listing of weblogs in
the United Kingdom (516 listed on 25 March 2002). Xenoblogs
<http://www.fawny.org/xenoblogs/>, "Weblogs from outside the USA",
provides access to weblogs in 30 countries (including the United
Kingdom), with a list of other directories. Meanwhile, the Open
Directory Project has a growing list of Library and Information
Science Weblogs <http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/
Library_and_Information_Science/Weblogs/>,
a list that complements the list of Library Weblogs created
by Peter Scott <http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html>.
The observation made about the number of weblogs indexed by
Daypop (above) is equally true of .blog and the other directories.
Each of these services and directories indexes or lists a small
proportion of the weblogs that are available. This means that
searchers are forced back onto trusted weblogs for links to other
weblogs, and onto Internet stalwarts like Yahoo!
<http://www.yahoo.com/> and Google <http://www.google.com/> for
access to information in weblogs.
Weblogs and You?
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Many claims have been made for the usefulness of weblogs. At
their best, they can "Help readers cope with an information
avalanche", says Andy Wang
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/02link.html>
by highlighting and summarising useful material. Rebecca Blood
suggests that they can also "contextualize" an article by listing it
among related articles from different sources, so that "Each article,
considered in the light of the other, may take on additional meaning"
<http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html>. Weblogs may
bring to the attention of the reader, material that would otherwise
have been missed. On the other hand, weblogs are part of the
"information avalanche", and perhaps part of the problem.
In the case of businesses, Dylan Tweney suggests that "Weblogs [can]
Make the Web Work for You"
<http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,37974,FF.html>. Public
relations professionals have always monitored newspapers and magazines
for coverage of their companies. In recent years, Internet-aware
companies and organisations have also monitored chat forums, listservs
and Usenet newsgroups to keep up with rumours and comment that could
affect sales of their products or have an impact on public image.
Dylan says that those companies should now also be monitoring relevant
weblogs and even providing news feeds and stories to weblogs. In
addition, organisations can establish and use their own weblogs to
present information as they want it to be presented, and to
communicate with clients or potential clients. As we saw earlier, some
libraries are already doing this.
Weblogs can also have a place within an organisation, as part of an
intranet. UserLand, creators of the Radio commercial weblog software,
are slanting their marketing in this direction. They say, "Weblogs
have emerged as a powerful knowledge management tool for corporations
and education. Radio UserLand is a weblog tool that makes it easy for
employees to quickly publish knowledge to an intranet where it is
archived and is accessible to other employees using search engines"
<http://www.userland.com/>. Weblogs might be one possibility within a
knowledge management strategy, providing as they do for publishing,
comment and collaboration.
In terms of weblogs, there do seem to be advantages and possibilities.
However, there are many people who see them as nothing more than a
passing fad. Whether or not the latter is true, John Hiler
<http://www.corante.com/microcontent/articles/googleblog.shtml> points
out that weblogs are already having an impact on most Web users
through Google search results. He further notes that weblogs will
probably continue to have such an impact for at least some time into
the future, whether or not the Web users actually know what a weblog
is.
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Dr L. Anne Clyde <http://www.hi.is/~anne/> is Professor in the Faculty
of Social Science at the University of Iceland <http://www.hi.is/>
where she specialises in online searching and Internet applications.
An Australian, she has worked in Canada, Namibia and other countries
as well as in Iceland. Her books include "School Libraries and the
Electronic Community" (1997), "Managing InfoTech in School Library
Media Centers" (1999), and "An Introduction to the Internet" (2001).
She is Webmaster of the award-winning School Libraries Online
site <http://www.iasl-slo.org/> and she maintains a page about weblogs
on her teaching Web site at <http://www.hi.is/~anne/weblogs.html>.
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