Reasons not to have a blog

In the library world, especially the special library world, there’s a lot of talk about keeping up with social media, including blogging. It’s one of the reasons, I started this blog.

Meanwhile in the water world, the straight-shooting blog On the Public Record has posted There is no shame in not having a blog:

Here’s how you know if you do not want to blog:

• You think your organization should have a blog, because all the cool organizations have a blog.
• You want someone to be representing your side of the story.
• It will increase your “web presence.”
• You want to “market” yourself.

Wow, those reasons sound very similar to what I’ve heard people in the library world say are good reasons to have a blog.

OtPR also says, “You will only ever reach people who like blogs. No one else drops by.”

Don’t worry. It isn’t all anti-blog. OtPR also gives reasons you might want to have a blog and tells what kind of blogs the world needs and doesn’t need.

Food for thought, anyway. I recommend you read the whole post (warning for the squeamish: four-letter words).

My friend Flickr

I signed up for Flickr recently. I’m using it for personal pictures, so I won’t link to them here. Still, that’s part of Week 4 of SLA’s 23 Things.

I sometimes tweet; does that make me a twit?

I am @rteeter on Twitter. I occasionally post there about research in climate change and water, particularly stuff that might not be widely reported.

(I’m already blogging — you’re looking at it — but Twittering counts as microblogging, so it must go along with week 2 in SLA’s 23 things.)

Went to a lecture tonight

I don’t normally do these sorts of things on a weeknight in my first life. But in my Second Life, I went to a Special Libraries Association program for librarians who want to raise their profiles. I never used SL before — I thought it was kind of a waste of time, frankly — but this was a good way to get some good ideas without having to go out anywhere.

(BTW, I’m Reb Zimberman on SL, so if you see me there, say hi.)

Edited to add: Since I created an avatar, that counts as thing 13 in SLA’s 23 Things (part of Play Week).

Hello

This is my first post on WordPress.  I’m trying out blogging as part of the Special Libraries Association’s 23 Things program.  I’m dubious about the whole concept of sorting useful information in chronological order.  It seems to me that, for most purposes, there are usually better ways to sort information.