Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Library Weblogs: '"The first public library weblog in the UK."' [Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen] For an international index to library weblogs, see "Library Weblogs." 3:19:24 PM

BlogMD "BlogMD is a new initiative, involving the author of this blog and loads of interesting developers including Cameron Marlow of Blogdex, to improve the interoperability between weblog software and increase the amount of metadata available on weblogs by defining some standard formats and APIs to transfer it around." [Via Weblog Interop] [Sylvain Carle: Content Management] This will help to catalog blog content.  Definitely an Idea/Standard to watch! 11:51:46 AM

Law Librarians as Newscasters: Law.com has an article entitled "Breaking News: Law Librarians as Newcasters" by  Susannah Crego on its site.  The article explains how newsletters, blogs, and current event summaries by law librarians can provide just in time information to law practioners and others in the firm. Thanks again, Jenny.   9:58:03 AM

A sample corporate policy for blogging: With the continued trend of using blogging as a knowledge management tool, here's a sample corporate policy on blogging from Ray Ozzie's Weblog.  Thanks to Jenny Levine for the link. 9:50:56 AM

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