Another article authored by Hodnicki worth more than a quick squizz…….
In his latest post on the US Law Librarian blog Hodnicki highlights some of the changes in the world of Legal Blogging since he launched the site back in 2005.
Here’s the introduction below.? He makes some interesting comments about the efficiacy of sanctioned? AALL? and even CRIV blogs in the current environment
What we do notice as with most USA generated content is the fact that the rest of the world appears almost invisible. We know it is the US Law Librarians blog but that said they could pay a little attention to what’s happening outside their borders.
In HOB’s eyes a lot of the interesting developments in law librariansship / km will soon start coming out of places like Africa, China, SE Asia and not forgetting South America
Read his full article at? http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2011/01/sixth-anniversary-of-law-librarian-blog.html
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“And what have you done, another year over and new one just begun:” on the sixth anniversary of Law Librarian Blog
So this is 2011 (echoing John Lennon) and here LLB is. Launched on Jan. 1, 2005, today is this blog’s sixth anniversary. Day in and day out, a hard working team of past and current co-editors and contributing editors who had plenty of other things to do have helped publish at least one post on LLB each and every day — well over 11,000 posts. When launched, the intention was to provide a current awareness service to law librarians and members of the public interested in law and legal research-related news and developments.
Thanks to the the integration of social media features in websites, RSS feeds for eNewsletters and new social media platforms, particularly the use of Twitter, one might think there is not nearly as much need to publish a post as a current awareness feature, alerting readers to news, new resources, or something of interest posted elsewhere, unless one is covering a topic with links to multiple web destinations or is also adding commentary and analysis in the text of the blog post. In his 2010 Blawggies award post, Dennis Kennedy wrote “the biggest trend in blawgging in 2010 is the continuing movement of blawggers into social media. It?s definitely decreased the frequency of blog posting by many blawggers and changed what gets written about on a blog as opposed to distributed via social media.” This is why Social Media, the Mobile Platform and Personal Portals was the 2010 Blawggie award winner in the most important trend in law-related blogging category. Kennedy adds
It used to be that websites and blogs made a great effort to drive people back to the website or blog and capture the reader there. The website or blog was the one central ?home base? (as Chris Brogan and others call it). Now, I see our web presence as much more distributed and our audience finding us in a variety of unrelated ways.
Since launching our Law Professor Blogs Network in 2004, my advice to well over 100 blog editors and contributing editors has always been, if you publish regularly, viewers will come and some will stay as regular readers by taking the blog’s RSS feed. This is certainly an effort to make a blog a “home base” where readers can expect to find something of interest on the topic covered by the blog. Certainly not every post published on blogs will be must-reads but hopefully there will be sufficient reader interest to retain a blog’s RSS feed.
But blog posts of all kinds — current awareness, analytical, commentary — also do something that other social media platforms do not do very well. They feed our common web search engines with content, content that a searcher may find useful for the search topic-at-hand, one where discovering a blog as a “home base” is not necessarily the most important factor. While I completely agree with Kennedy’s trend analysis, this is where I have a problem with Kennedy’s comments about this trend. If content is king, the author’s intention for publishing something on the web by alternative social media avenues may not matter as much as the information provided and found by Google, Bing, etc., searches if published in blogs. Blogging as a social me
