Insufficient data? Can’t you just make an educated guess?

Walt Crawford has done some interesting number-crunching of academic and public library blogs, and he’s looking at whether it’s desirable to do a larger-scale analysis of blogs by library people. In a sane world, people would be throwing lots of money at him for this.* But for now he’s just gauging interest. So hop over and put your two cents in.* And while I’m on the subject of non-pony-related wishes, I’d love to see Walt, Jason Griffey and Karen Coombs (authors of a forthcoming book on library blogging) and other people I’m not thinking of right now in a roundtable discussion on library blogging - when you should or shouldn’t do it, what works, and so on. And studies of non-English language liblogs. And discussion of the recent Best Practices LLC benchmarking study of corporate libraries. And…

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