Top 25 Librarian Bloggers

Oh, this is causing a little bit of a stir! Top 25 Librarian Bloggers (By the Numbers) | OEDb. The Online Education Database has put together a list of what is considers to be the top 25 librarian bloggers. Unfortunately because of the methodology that they used, it's led to some odd results, with certain very well known blogs missing the cut - partly for example because they're not in the DMOZ listing. They also did a search in Google for 'librarian blog' which as one commentator has pointed out is a pretty silly and poor search. Maybe they should have asked a librarian to come up with a search strategy for them to use?

All in all, as an objective 'by the numbers' approach I think it's pretty poor. (Oh yeah, I wasn't in the list - partly because this blog isn't in DMOZ, though my old one is, and I don't have librarian or blog in my title, mainly because it's not really optimized for search engines).

Having said that, most people are talking about who is or is not on the list, so I thought I'd look and see how many I read on a regular basis... and it's (pause while I go off to count) ... six.  Does that say more about me, or about the list? No idea. Still, it gives me a chance to take a poke around at some new weblogs, which has to be a good thing.

Comments

[Erik Nicolaisen Høy]

*comforts Phil*
Don't worry, Phil. Seems to be a list of the weblogs mainly in the USA. We're many that enjoy your blog. And who cares about being on such a list?
Hey, and what about us non-english webloggers? We've been doing two Danish librarian weblog since 2002:
Bib-log (http://www.bib-log.blogspot.com/). And Internetsøgning (erikhoy.blogspot.com). Those two are in fact two of the first library weblogs that still going strong.
We were even mentioned for that in some international analysis a while ago.
Just can't remember the reference, and that's the point of this comment: Noone will probably remember that list in a few months.

[Ryan]

Hi Phil! Ryan #22 here (and how dare you criticize the methodology. It's pristine. :) )

I've added you to my aggregator, so it's not just the list, but the discussion that's making people notice more librar* (as Steve Cohen says) blogs.

[Phil Bradley]

Thanks Erik - I'm not actually going to lose any sleep over this, and I don't think it's a particularly important issue. As Ryan goes on to say, it does have a use in that it's bringing some blogs to wider attention, which is a good thing, and I've added a couple to my reader as a result.

[Bill Drew]

It is a very lame list. The process for selecting blogs to look was flawed from the very beginning. Besides, they missed your blog and mine! It has to be a flawed process if that happened. (GRIN)