OK, here’s a new (at least to me, which means that it could actually be older than dirt) buzzword: “placeblogging.” This is a blog set up to discuss what’s happening in a neighborhood, town, city, or other geographic location. As you can imagine, it could be useful for someone who has just moved into an area and wants the inside story of their new home, or for connecting movers and shakers, or as an advertisement about the community to the rest of the world.
A new site launched New Year’s Day to host such blogs and already looks pretty busy. And an article posted yesterday to Information Week’s site calls this the “first buzzword of 2007.”
Wouldn’t it make sense for libraries to be prominent in such placeblogs, or maybe even to start one if it doesn’t already exist? Imagine how much the library staff could learn about its community by participating actively in this!
by George
