Wikis - stand back - I've hit the motherload.

I found this wiki of (admittedly American) academic library blogs through this presentation on why using blogs and wikis in academic libraries are a good idea.

More guided browsing alternatives

I mentioned the other day that I had stumbled upon something...a friend recommended a site called Stumbleupon as a ready supply for blog content. Some of you might already be familiar with this (and others might shy away because (a) theres going to be more password nonsense* and (b) there is a very real possibility that the internet is going to eat your free-time/allotted leisure time/life and leave no room for anything else.) Having said that it is kind of fun - basically you sign up (which is quick and relatively painless) and pick your interests and then start stumbling across a selection of the web - giving the thumbs up to sites you like.  It's like Delicious in the sense that other people (either friends through linking up with your Facebook/google contacts etc.) or just general stumblers are 'handpicking' good sites. There is still human some filtering required here but I've already come across some really interesting things like Bookmooch.
Pursue if you dare!

 *steam out of ears

The Content Question and the content debate

I've long been reading blogs - they are often the output of small indie communities of bloggers that either handmake or sell things and take nice photos of their daily activities such as going to the market or eating a pastry with coffee (they love photos of things with bites out of them!) or taking photos of their outfits. Perhaps this is very biased towards girl-blogs! While they make some money from selling totes and prints etc, I suspect the majority of their income is from ad revenue - especially when they have a big readership. But even then - it all seems carefully unattached to any particular organisation.
How blogs could be used in a work capacity has been mentioned by the Anonymous Librarian - and to be honest I'm not sure how neatly they fit into that context when they seem to be diary-based. Which is not to say they dont  - our own blog is a great resource for students and keeps them updated on current news, (and stops our website from being static and unchanging). Casting around for future content for this blog, I thought I might stick in a few book/movie reviews as I read/watch them to give it a personal but work-related feel. So possibly for a library you could have a blog with arts and cultural reviews on stuff around Dublin? As Dewey has already kind of started doing. Nothing groundbreaking here, just continuing the ball rolling!