I’ve made my detailed post over at lint, Happy Blog Day from Kathryn.
Last year I mentioned five blogs that had under 200 bloglines subscribers as my favourite new blogs. Interesting to see how they have grown:
- Temporal Island. De walks around Perth recording her observations and seeing more than the average person does.
- Stephen’s Lighthouse . By SirsiDynix’s Vice President of Innovation, Stephen Abram
- Walt at Random Where Walt Crawford blogs about things not quite ready for his other sites.
- WebDiary-Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent Highty respected Australian journalist, Margo Kingston, Margo founded Webdiary for the Sydney Morning Herald in July 2000 and took it independent on August 22, 2005.
- I am Matthew Williams and You are Not | www.instructionUnderground.com
Notes from the Writing Instruction Underground. Matthew writes about using new social technologies to engage students in his university.
This year my picks are:
- Mobile Technology in TAFE
- Uncontrolled Vocabulary
- When Convention Fails – New Worlds can be Found
- Al Upton and the Minilegends
- Virtually a Librarian
Head over to lint to see why.
*smiles*
Hello Kathryn, and happy Spring! You are so right that Librarians Matter. I’m finishing off an update to my 2004 book ‘Not Happy, John! Defending our democracy’ and this is in the acknowledgements:
“To National Library staff, my undying gratitude to everyone who conceived of and created the Pandora online archive and chose to include Webdiary. Without you, my work and that of thousands of Webdiarists who thought the Sydney Morning Herald was an online paper of record would have disappeared.”
Regards,
Margo Kingston
Hi Kathryn
Thanks for including my blog in your 5 blogs and apologies for taking so long to thank you. I am very grateful for your support, and we all appreciate the assistance/help everyone in Perth’s web community gives us. My hope is the information I post will be of help to others.
Sue
Greg *smiles back* and says thank you for giving me something to listen to on the exercise bike.
Margo Thanks. That’s so kind – and so accurate 🙂
Sue It is absolutely of help to me. So sorry that I’m off the web this weekend and can’t respond to your request for feedback about inspiring others to take up technology.
Kathryn
That is okay. Have a great time with the kids, and after the party yesterday you probably need the rest.
My work on elearning leadership is ongoing so if you do get time, ever, and have tips to inspire others, would love to hear them. I will be taking all the comments, videos and audio and putting them onto my leadership wiki.
Sue
Hi Kathryn
Thanks so much for the link! Great to know someone’s actually reading my ramblings!
I’m enjoying exploring the myriad of recommendations that appeared around Blog Day… Al Upton and the Minilegends is such a great concept. It’s wonderful to see educators getting kids engaged with 2.0 technologies in the classroom.
K.
Hi Kate. I’m enjoying your blog a lot. It’s obvious that you spend a lot of time reading and staying current, and I’m really benefitting from the way you feed that into your blog.