Slide1 : Blogging/RSSing the Librarian Way
Program 1: Trends in Blogging and RSS
Information Technology Division, SLA
Toronto, June 6, 2005
Trends in Blogging and RSS Marie Kaddell, MLS, MS, MBA marie.kaddell@lexisnexis.com Information Professional Consultant LexisNexis : Trends in Blogging and RSS Marie Kaddell, MLS, MS, MBA marie.kaddell@lexisnexis.com Information Professional Consultant LexisNexis
Blogging Trends : Blogging Trends In 2004, Blog was the most searched for definition at Merriam-Webster.com
31.6 Million Hosted Blogs, Growing to 53.4 Million by end of 2005
10 Million created in the first quarter of 2005 alone
66% of those surveyed had not updated in 2 months
1.09 blogs are composed of an initial post and then nothing else follows
Only 9.9% are linking to traditional news sources
92.4% of blogs are created by people under the age of 30 and more 13 – 19 year olds are blogging than any other segment of the population at this point in time (Perseus.com Blogsurvey)
Bloggers account for less than 2% of the adult population (Universal McCann and Media in Mind Study)
What’s So Great About Blogs? : What’s So Great About Blogs? Democratization of the press, a chance to talk back to the media and question their stance. The rise of the citizen journalist.
MSM (mainstream media) creates its own feeds and many aggregators like Bloglines serve them up side by side with the blogs
Ask Dan Rather about the impact of the blog today
You can belong to a blogging community
Easy to test drive and maintain
Free or reasonably priced premium services available
You can create them for “nanoaudiences” like family, friends, and coworkers
Who Is Blogging? : Who Is Blogging? CEOs and Execs
Boeing VP Randy Baseler and Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz
www.boeing.com/randy
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan
Businesses Big and Small
http://fastlane.gmblogs.com
www.Loosetooth.com (shop blog)
Celebrities
www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog
(collaborating elite)
Adam Curry, Dave Barry, Pamela Lee Anderson, William Shatner Newspaper Subscribers
Le Monde Interactive
Weathermen
www.alroker.com/journal.cfm
Politicians
Bush and Kerry
Professionals
Jupiter research analysts www.joelonsoftware.com
Soldiers
L.T. Smash
Boots on the Ground
365 and a Wake Up
Sellers
www.mightygoods.net
Who Else Is Blogging? : Who Else Is Blogging? Non-profits
www.migraineblog.org
Teachers and Students
www.schoolblogs.com
UThink – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Dartblogs at Dartmouth –alumni can blog too
Blackboard Bloggers
http://spritopias.diaryland.com
Crafters
www.notmartha.org
Librarians
www.theshiftedlibrarian.com
www.librarystuff.net
Teenagers
At AOL Red Blogs
At Bolt.com (blogging is just one of the features)
Farmers
www.stonyfield.com/weblog
Cooks
www.chocolateandzucchini.com
Friends of Old
Barbie’s Got a Blog
Where Are Bloggers Blogging? : Where Are Bloggers Blogging? Leading Blog Hosts
BlogSpot
Xanga
LiveJournal
6.6 – 8. 2 Million accounts each
New Places
Typepad
Blurty
Greatest Journal
AOL Journals
MSN Spaces
14 languages
10 M blogs
And More
Moreover.com (metadata categories and editorial review)
Diaryland/Pitas
Open Diary
Radio Userland
Blog Drive
Dead Journal
JoeUser.com
Squarespace
Mindsay
Modblog
About My Life
Blog Harbor
MySpace
Niche Blogs : Niche Blogs MobileBlogs or Moblogs
Phone Blogging
Blogger on the Go
http://go.blogger.com/mobile-start.g
www.textamerica.com
www.buzznet.com
PhotoBlogs
www.flickr.com
http://fotolog.net
www.zoto.com
www.phlog.net
Travel Blogs
www.travelBlog.org
www.TravelPost.com
Niche Blogs : Niche Blogs Vblogs, Vlogs, Videoblogs
http://vlogdir.com
www.videoaddon.com
http://vidblogs.com
Dashlogs and Linklogs
Specializing on pointing readers to pages on the web
www.dashlog.com
kLogs
Knowledge management in context
Allows anyone in organization to add to knowledge base
Plogs
Password protected project logs
Niche Blogs : Niche Blogs Podcasting
22 M American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29% of them have downloaded podcasts (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
Radio-style broadcasting
www.Podshow.com
www.Audioblog.com
Listen to text only blogs on your iPod
www.Talkr.com
Social podcasting
www.Sparkcasting.com
Community voice, social podcasting
Niche Blogs : Niche Blogs Celebrity podcasting
Paris Hilton promoting House of Wax
Pope Benedict from Vatican Radio
Programs to download podcasts
Doppler, iPodder, iPodderX
Newspapers and Magazines turn to Podcasts
Denver Post, Washington Post, Forbes, Newsweek
Voice XML
A phone call becomes a feed
Blogging Directions : Blogging Directions Tagging, taxonomy, folksonomy
Newsgator is experimenting with folksonomy in its archive
www.flickr.com/photos/tags
Airtight flickr tag browser
Social Bookmarking
http://del.icio.us, http://blogmarks.net
Regional and Localized Blogs
http://local.blogdigger.com (Beta)
Bridge Bloggers
Bloggers bridging cultures and languages
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices
Blogads, donations, referral fees
Blogging Directions : Blogging Directions Blog Search Engines with additional functionality
www.IceRocket.com
Blogs and moblogs searches including cell phone cam pictures, free RSS builder, audioblogs, podcasts, and videoblogs
The Wisdom of Crowds
http://en.wikinews.org
Write the news
Internal Business Blogs and Wikis
IBM’s Blog Enterprise
Collaboration with wikis and blogs
Disney, HP, GM, IBM, Nokia
Advertising
www.Feedburner.com
contextually targeted rss ads and rss-powered publicity tools
Blogging Problems : Blogging Problems Job lose and legal pitfalls
Candor versus paycheck
Blog censorship
Developing a thick skin
Licensing issues
When you feed it are you putting it in the public domain?
Spyware and hijacking
Free stuff – sometimes it’s not really free
Viruses
Search Miracle/Elitebar virus
Stalkers and harassment
Information overload
Does it make you smarter or clog your brain? Can you overdo it?
5 Cool Things About RSS : 5 Cool Things About RSS It’s a really simple syndication standard for syndicating web content
No spam and little chance for it to occur with RSS feeds - it won’t clog up your email
RSS feeds give consumers and readers control
Diminishes cognitive overload – scan headlines and you know what’s new
Easy to grab - Orange XML icon tells you it’s there and new generation readers like MyYahoo provides make it seamless to grab and add
RSS – Reading the Feeds : RSS – Reading the Feeds Web-based
Yahoo brings RSS to the masses with My Yahoo
MSN
www.bloglines.com
www.newsisfree.com
www.pubsub.com
www.feedster.com
Greatnews
www.curiostudio.com
Browser Based
Integrated into browsers
Safari, Foxfire, Mozilla
Especially for IE
Feedscout
www.bytescout.com/feedscout.html
www.blogbot.com
RSS – Reading the Feeds : RSS – Reading the Feeds Stand Alone News Readers
http://radio.userland.com
Also blogging tool with email blogging capability
FeedDemon
Can display news in a newspaper format for easy reading
Podcasting tools including non-iPods
www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon www.awasu.com
Not just news but email, webscrapes, job site, and url changes
www.newsgator.com
Turns Outlook into a news reader
AmphetaDesk
www.disobey.com/amphetadesk
http://newzcrawler.com
Webpages, newsgroups, feeds
Feed Me What can I get and how can I find it? : Feed Me What can I get and how can I find it? Libraries
http://www.lisfeeds.com
Federal and state government
http://www.rssgov.com
Legal Blogs
http://blawgrepublic.com
More places to find feeds - more
www.technorati.com
www.daypop.com
www.waypath.com
www.syndic8.com
www.feedster.com Feeds for every need
www.podcastalley.com
Package Ttacking at Bloglines
RSS is a viable advertising medium
Amazon.com’s bestseller feeds
FindSavings.com’s coupons
Blog Tracking
BlogPulse – 9.3 M blogs tracked
“An automated trend discovery system”
RSS Trends : RSS Trends People are becoming more reluctant to click out of readers and visit a site especially with full-text feeds availability.
E-commerce plays
Amazon’s A9.com
http://zoundry.com
- Zoundry Blog Writer (beta)
Write and format product recommendations and create affiliate links, managing merchant accounts and rewards
LexisNexis® Publisher
An advanced content management tool integrating on-point information to your website, portal, or intranet
RSS is on LexisNexis developers’ top priority list as an enhancement to Publisher
Topics would be based on LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ taxonomy
Client created topics would be next to come
RSS Trends : RSS Trends Feeds on the Phone
NewsBreak Lite RSS feed reader for Pocket PC and Smartphone
http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/nw/newsbreak.htm
http://feedbeep.com
Feeds on PDAs
FreeNews Mobile RSS Reader recently released
www.freerangeinc.com
BerryBloglines
www.thebogles.com/berry_bloglines.html
http://mobilerss.net
www.newsmob.com
RSS Trends : RSS Trends RSS as Email
www.myrssalerts.com
http://botablog.com
http://rsshut.com
RSS your Calendars
http://www.rsscalendar.com/rss (beta)
http://upcoming.org
www.evdb.com (beta) – event and venue rss
Shopping with RSS
www.dealcatcher.com
http://rssauction.com
What’s Next with RSS : What’s Next with RSS Continual monitoring and delivery of feeds like a TV channel
KnowNow3 Enterprise Syndication Solution
A scaleable enterprise RSS aggregator
www.knownow.com
Add RSS Feeds to Your Site
Feedsweep
www.howdev.com/services/feedsweep Make your own feed
Blogger, Tristana Writer, FeedForAll
Internal RSS feeds
ING testing RSS for internal communications through KnowNow3
Consistent delivery – better than email
Meta-feeds
Metadata about other feeds as an alternative to tags
Links List : Links List Pamela Lee Anderson’s Blog
http://pamelaanderson.blogs.friendster.com
Barbie’s Blog
http://myscene.everythinggirl.com/friends/barbie/barbie_index.aspx?open=blog&
William Shatner’s Blog
www.williamshatner.com/
Adam Curry’s Blog
http://live.curry.com/
Boots on the Ground
http://bootsonground.blogspot.com
365 and a Wake Up
http://thunder6.typepad.com/
UThink
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/
Links List : Links List Dartblogs
http://dartblogs.com
Mobilocity K-Log
http://radio.weblogs.com/0101123/
Airtight
www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/
LexisNexis® Publisher
www.lexisnexis.com/publisher/
LexisNexis® SmartIndexing Technology™ www.lexisnexis.com/infopro/smartindexing/
LexisNexis® Taxonomy
http://www.lexisnexis.com/taxonomy/