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I did not notice until today, but the first anniversary of this blog was on November 13th. There are currently 87 posts and 109 comments which have attracted just over 10,000 unique visitors. Most visitors (2,700) came from the USA follow by 2,500 from the Netherlands. Which surprised me. I would have thought it the other way around. Quite a lot of visitors through my Dutch blog.
Inclusion of this blog in Walt Crawford latest book surprised me, but it feels like an honour. I still should read what he has to say, but ordering by libraries goes a bit slow.
Maintaining two blogs in different langauges took more effort than I thought at the beginning, but it the experiment is a succes in that both blogs have very different voices. Which really like.
A fellow Dutch library blogger just started a new library blog in English. Jan Klerk just started a new library blog called “Biebzone beta“. In his daily life Jan is a manager at the Public library in Haarlem. He has build himself a nice reputation over the last couple of years as a thoughtfull library blogger at his other blog Jan Tweepuntnul (2.0 that is).
A quote from his current post illustrates this thoughtfullness perhaps a little:
It’s all about argument and counterargument. It’s about listening carefully and reading and writing carefully.
I really appreciate his step to present some more of the wheelings and dealings op Dutch public libraries to a larger (international) audience. In this wat the rest of the world can have a closer look at (public) library developments in the Netherlands.
Bora Zivkovic from A Blog around the Clock mentioned that Discover Magazine just started with a collection of top science blogs. For me that post was an incentive to updated my list of science blog portal and aggregators.
Since I think the list is far from complete I thought it wisely to post it here to and see if the comments will lead to some useful suggestions:
The Academic blog portal http://www.academicblogs.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
A wiki that lists a large collection of academic blogs.
Discover Blogs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/
Freshly starting collection of science blogs at Discover Magazine. It hosts one of the most popular science blogs Bad astronomy.
Nature Blogs http://blogs.nature.com/
A collection of blogs run by Nature. A really interesting post on one of the Nature blogs was their investigation of the scientific blogosphere
Nature Network Blogs http://network.nature.com/blogs
A collection of some 80+ blogs run by scientists on the Nature Network.
Postgenomic http://postgenomic.com/blogs.php
Postgenomic, also from the Nature Publishing Group, harvests about 800 science blogs -including most blogs from the agregators mentioned on this page- and collects what is hot and what not at the moment. The full list of blogs covered is give at this website.
Research Blogging http://researchblogging.org/
A collection of blogposts discussing peer reviewed research
Scienceblogs http://scienceblogs.com/
Perhaps the best known collection of science blogs (including most of top science blogs reported by Nature) which has grown to syndicate some 70 science blogs.
Scientific American Community Blogs
Just ceased to exists.
Scientific Blogging http://www.scientificblogging.com/
One blog platform hosting many bloggers on various scientific subjects that can be followed with a few feeds per subject.
As you can see I have left out the science blogs at journals such as WIRED Science, Time, CBC, NYT and Correlations, I am looking for larger science blogging communities, aggregators or portals.
With apologies to my English readers.
De posting gaat over mijn Nederlandstalig blog. Wegens een ongekend grote en hevige spam attack op mijn andere domein is het commentaar daar tijdelijk gesloten, en kan ik daar op dit moment ook niet posten. Daarom dit kanaal maar even gebruiken om mijn trouwe lezers op de hoogte te stellen. Via de koppen in de linkerkollom wordt dit wel op die site getoond.
Wat is RSS toch handig…..
Just a quick note to remind myself that I came across a satirical library blog from a Dutch librarian written in English. “Obnoxious Librarian from Hades” is written by D.H., librarian at a Dutch/Anglo oil company.
When I started blogging, I was heavily interested in developments with search engines and to a lesser extent in libraries, library systems or information science. In due course my attention shifted away from websearch. Not that I didn’t follow it, but it was really difficult to stay abreast of the avalanche of information on this subject. Since September 2005 the onset of web 2.0 and the role of web 2.0 in librarianship has become one of the recurring memes on my Dutch blog. This meme will return on this blog for sure. I will attempt to point out to the rest of the world what is happening in the Dutch library world with respect to innovative library developments. Let them be 2.0 or 3.0 or whatever.
Another theme that has my sincere interest is the review and comparison of new developments of library systems, either library content management systems or article and Indexing databases. The review of these developments will take place here, rather than on my Ducht blog. I assume that for most of the (Dutch) academic librarians the language thing won’t be a problem too much.
Another recurrent theme on my Dutch blog is the development of the Duch Biblioblogosphere. That subject is not likely to be covered here in a similar way, but development of the blogosphere as such is a subject that has my interest that will receive some attention.
Last but not least another of my hobby horses is scientometrics. Research evaluation based on bibliometrics.
The parallel blog to this blog was started in May 2005. From the onset it was a blog written in Dutch. At the beginning I thought it was more important to plough back information from the English library log world into the Dutch biblioblogosphere. However it soon proved interesting to post in English as well. I felt a strong need to interact with the English liblog world as well. So for some period of time my blog at wowter.nl was bilingual.
The title of this post refers back to a discussion –in blogs- I had with Ruminations and In between. Interesting to note how my opinion has changed now. Since it seems to me that you can’t really combine two languages on a single blog. In the end a bilingual blog proved to be unsatisfactory. I had the feeling the blog was becoming less attractive to a part of my Dutch Audience. Posts in English were visited less frequently than Dutch posts. On the other hand, being primarily a Dutch, or bilingual Blog It seemed to me that I did not attract a steady English speaking audience. This is also affected by the observation that a mainly Dutch blog will rank less favourable in Google.com, so the discoverability of the English blog posts was far lower than Dutch post by Google.nl.
So for quite some time I had the idea to circumvent all these problems and start a separate blog in English, on a more international domain. I registered wowter.net already quite some time ago, but I never got around to make a start. I finally didn’t bother too much about a super perfect layout and here it is.
I finally made the start.
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