Librarian Way

Library students studying Web technology at the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science in a library 240 class taught by Debbie Faires are creating blogs. The main page, which I expect will stay around, has links to the individual student blogs in the sidebar: 240 Things.

Peter Morville, who co-authored the book that everyone interested in information architecture reads, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, has started a blog findability.org | ambient findability + the design of findable objects . He states,

In case you haven’t noticed, it’s a borg. I mean, it’s a blog. Yes, after years of quiet resistance, I’ve succumbed to the call of the blogosphere. I’ve been assimilated.

In blogging, my most transparent and prosaic goal is to promote my new book, Ambient Findability. I’ve poured blood, sweat, and tears into this strange text, so I won’t be shy about inviting folks to read it.

Technology News: Blog News: A Sweet Suite for Bloggers. The product discussed in this article, IMHO developed by Andrea Boschin, sounds interesting. It apparently needs to be used in conjunction with Omea, an RSS reader and newsgroup aggregator developed by JetBrains. It works in Microsoft IE and Firefox and with many different blogging packages. I haven’t had time to try it.