Yes, I feel all proud, because it’s coming up to birthday-time for the UK Library Bloggers Wiki...it’s toddling along nicely all by itself (with just the occasional spammer attack – it’s really quite satisfying to get to ban and block people!), with people generally seeming quite happy with the process of adding their blogs themselves.
Since I last looked in July 2010, there have continued to be additions in various categories.
July 2010 March 2011
Institutional bloggers 135 152
Individual bloggers 90 107
Chartership blogs 5 6
Information professionals 8 8
Suppliers 8 8
Total: 281 blogs
So, a growth in institutional/workplace bloggers, and individual/personal bloggers too, and a solitary, brave Chartership blog.
I wonder if the 2 years without any change, then last years small growth in Chartership blogs is because people are already blogging, and then decide to Charter, and incorporate that aspect of professional development into their existing blog? Or are fewer people Chartering? Or are those who are Chartering using other methods to log their progress?
I’ve also decided to remove the Yahoo Pipes combines RSS feed link for Institutional and Individual blogs from the front page of the wiki – it was initially done as an experiment, and now that people are able to add their own blogs, unless I then go in each time after I get the wiki has been edited alert”, get their RSS feed, and go edit the Yahoo Pipe, it’s never going to be current/accurate. And I’m afraid I just don’t have the time to be fiddling like that constantly!
Of course, I haven’t clicked on each of those 281 blog links, so I’m quite sure that at least some of them are now defunct – my plan to go through them, and remove the dead blogs to another section has definitely slipped to the bottom of my to-do list. Maybe I’ll be more inspired to do it if I get a prize. Can I get a prize?
Dumpling in a Hanky 
Well count me as one 'already registered but now chartering' and I think it's unlikely I'm the exception! When I started my graduate trainee year I went looking for a blog on graduate trainees (preferably one where they went on beyond their traineeship) and couldn't find one. I'm fairly certain I was in the first cohort where the blog has moved with bloggers as they moved across different categories (trainee, student, librarian).
In fact, I think I'd better go and check the wiki is even vaguely up-to-date for my blog!
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