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Quick Links for Blog Demos
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Ubiquity
Oregon
Ballot Instructions
http://tenyearsofmylife.com/2004/04/23/
Utah
State Government
http://news.utah.gov/news/syndicate.html
Influence
How the Blogs Torpedoed Dan Rather
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/1/28/172943.shtml
The Legend of Trent Lott and the Weblogs
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/03/15/lott_case.html
Event
Blogs
Spoleto
(archives only now)
http://www.spoletoblog.typepad.com/
SLA
Conference Blogs
http://slablogger.typepad.com/sla_conference_blog/
http://slablogger.typepad.com/sla_2006_conference_blog/
Compare with the ALA Wikis
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/ala2006/index.php?title=Main_Page
Black
History Month Blog, VCU Library
http://blog.vcu.edu/blackhistory/
Atypical
Blogs
Bowie
State University School of Education
http://education.bowiestate.edu/
Gardner
Writes (Donne a Day segments)
http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/index.php?s=donne
Staying
Ahead of Your Patrons With Weblogs and RSS (Blog as presentation format)
http://www.stevenmcohen.info/yale02152005/
And an audio post reaction to using the format
http://www.librarystuff.net/2005/02/weblog-presentation-tool-reactions.html
Wisdom
Quotes
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/
20/20
Hindsight
All
About the Minnesota School Shooter
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001837.htm
The
Blogging of a Predator
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/07/the_blogging_of.html
Books
That Started as Blogs
Publishers
put bloggers between the covers (USA Today, April 18, 2005)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2005-04-17-blogger-book-deals_x.htm The
Washingtonienne (June 2005)
http://washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com/
A novel by Jessica Cutler, the woman who a year ago, on her short-lived blog, gained notoriety in Washington, D.C., for dishing about her sexual escapades on Capitol Hill.
This is a recreated (resurrected?) copy of that defunct blog.
Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq
(in stores)
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com
By the pseudonymous Riverbend, a twentysomething Iraqi. The book contains a year's worth of blog entries
about living in war-torn Baghdad. Anonymous Lawyer (tentative title) by Jeremy Blachman (fall
2006)
http://anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com
The Harvard Law student's fictional blog
is the basis for a novel in blog form about life inside a law firm where a senior partner commits an indiscretion that gets blown out of proportion.
I'm Not the New Me: A Memoir by Wendy McClure (April
2005)
http://Poundy.com
The book covers the same territory as McClure's Web site: her struggles with weight and body image. My War by Colby Buzzell
(fall 2005)
http://cbftw.blogspot.com
In the memoir, the U.S. Army soldier, whose blog entries depict the Iraq war from the
G.I. point of view, will expand on his front-line reports. Straight Up & Dirty: A Memoir by Stephanie Klein (April
2006)
http://stephanieklein.blogs.com
Klein's book, like her Sex and the City-like blog, will recount her life as a divorcée in New York.
Created
6/3/2005; revised 9/30/2006
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