digitizationblog

I planned to do this next Friday, but I've rolled out the new Digitizationblog a few days early. We're now running on Drupal! Accounts of users who posted comments have been migrated but accounts of users who never posted comment have not been. I've written up the migration over at Drupalib if you're interested.

If you read this site's RSS feeds, please update your reader to point to http://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/rss.xml.

For the second time in three days I've had to restore the database that drives this website. My webhost provider has had ongoing hardware problems. I apologize for the disruption of service.

Earlier this month I disabled commenting because I was getting hundreds of spams a day for a few days. Last week I restored regular comments but kept trackback comments turned off so I could monitor the results, and have not received a single spam comment since then. So, I'm turning off trackbacks indefinitely in an effort to stamp out the the scum-sucking lowlifes who think getting bloggers angry actually sells mortgages and anatomical enhancement drugs.

Hi all. I can't keep up with the huge increase in comment spam in the last few days so I am temporarily disabling commenting. I'll address this problem more rationally at the end of the week.

For bloggers in the audience, the latest column on Useit.com is on blog usability. OK, I guess I'll cave and put a picture of myself on the About page, since Nielsen points out that an author photo "connects the virtual and physical worlds," which, after all, is a focus of digitizationblog.

...into Walt Crawford's "Investigating the Biblioblogosphere" (Cites & Insights 5:10, 2-13). Too bad. Worth reading, though, if you want a broad survey of the variety of library blogs out there.

I've upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and have kept the default skin until I have time to restore some of the customizations I made in the older version (especially the all archives view). Everything appears to be working the same as before, but please let me know if you experience any problems.

Mark

April 14 marks digitizationblog's sixth month. Some statistics (caveat lector) from my web host's AWStats summary: from April 1 - 12, the digitizationblog home page was viewed 392 times (or about 33 times/day) excluding robots/indexers/etc., and the RSS feed was viewed (eaten?) 3561 times (that's about 300 times/day).

Also, Bloglines reports that 72 of its users subscribe to digitizationblog.

I've added two new categories. The first is "Publications". Since many of my posts are simply announcements of journal and newsletter issues, this is a natural. The second is "Views," a category that encourages posts of a more personal nature than the factoid-oriented items that have dominated digitizationblog thus far.