For I discover this blog has been listed in the excellent Cites and Insights. The latest issue contains Perspective: Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle - a look at 213 library-person weblogs. Walt Crawford is very through in his approach and assesses the blogs he looks at thus:
Starting date (from internal evidence)
Frequency of posts, March-May 2006
Number of comments, March-May 2006
Comments per post
Total length of posts, March-May 2006
Average length of posts
Blogrolls
Typeface and alignment
Colour usage
Creative Commons
Software
Here's my entry:
Tom Roper’s Weblog
Tagline: “ ‘…an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge…’
R.B. Sheridan The Rivals, 1775.” Author: Tom
Roper. Established October 2005. First March title:
“CILIP National Councillor election results.” Most
comments (4): “Beach huts: I speak out.” [showing I have my finger on the pulse of the issues that matter to this great profession of ours-TR]
Metrics: Many posts (70), comments (19), long
overall (6,654), terse posts (95 words per post).
Actually it was established long before October 2005: my first post, on the death of Alan Davidson, was in December 2003.
