Tag Archives: Libology

One in Twenty

Posted on 8 June 2009 by Rick Mason

Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest is a New York Times article about blogging, specifically about the study showing an estimated 95% of blogs have not been updated in over 4 months. Does this signal an end to blogging?  The … Continue reading →

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Libology on the Kindle

Posted on 14 May 2009 by Rick Mason

Saw a post on TechCrunch that indicated that Amazon has opened their offerings of blog subscriptions for the Kindle reader to all blogs that sign up.  So now Libology is available to readers of the Kindle… with two caveats: It … Continue reading →

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Neutral Pleasure, Medium Arousal

Posted on 22 April 2009 by Rick Mason

In its continuing examination of library blogs, HotStuff 2.0 has added a visualization of emotional content. Here is the current visualization for Libology: How to read the information, from HotStuff’s description: The overall scatter of words in the ANEW list … Continue reading →

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Google Ventures and Libology

Posted on 31 March 2009 by Rick Mason

Now that Google Ventures has been officially announced, I can go public with my own news: Libology is one of the first group of startup companies which will be receiving Google Ventures funding.  I have been in talks with someone … Continue reading →

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ISSN-uated

Posted on 21 February 2009 by Rick Mason

A little over two months ago, I decided to apply for an ISSN for this blog.  The notification letter arrived from the Library of Congress yesterday:  Libology blog has an ISSN of 1946-1852.  The link on the ISSN number doesn’t … Continue reading →

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New Theme

Posted on 11 January 2009 by Rick Mason

Not a huge deal, but I just changed the theme of this blog to slight, which was created by Thematology. There are several reasons for this change, including: Wanting a theme that would fit better with the Libology logo (forthcoming) … Continue reading →

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HotStuff 2.0

Posted on 6 January 2009 by Rick Mason

HotStuff 2.0 is described by its creator, Dave Pattern, as “an automatically updated blog… [in which] a daily blog post is generated using a single word that has seen a marked increase in usage over the last few days.”  The … Continue reading →

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Changes and more Change

Posted on 30 July 2008 by Rick Mason

In the time it has taken to transfer the domain, I have been thinking about the blog, especially what its focus is and will likely be. I am, as of three minutes ago, changing the name of the blog from … Continue reading →

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