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!
I really like the idea of book/ movie reviews, I'm always on the lookout for good recommendations, might gate crash this party if yeah don't mind :)
ReplyDeleteThe more the merrier - I love hearing what other people thought of stuff - there was a book I read reviewed on the View recently and I found that very exciting altogether:) we'll just have to be careful not to give away plots!
ReplyDeleteYes, count me in. I always have anti-climax feeling after reading a good book. (Hmmmm, is anti-climax a feeling or a state. Debate!) In that, the mind has lived within the atmosphere and personalities of the narrative and at the end there is no debriefing.
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