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Quick Links for Blog Demos
During Class

 

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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