I am trying this out today. I guess librarians should know how to set up blogs anyway. All I really wanted to do was set up a profile in Blogger so I could join the Gaddis Drinking Club.
Since October/November of last year, when I first clicked through from TMTFL to Mark Sarvas' blog The Elegant Variation, I've been messing about with US litblogs, compiling reading lists to take to the library and generally having a good old stretch of the brain ( educated for free by Gough Whitlam in the very late 70s and courtesy of student loans again in the early 'noughties) in the blogosphere.
Already the book reviews in the local papers ( The Age, The Australian) look jaded to me,and the other day I found a Maureen Dowd article in hard copy around the house which I fully meant to read online when I got the password from Bugmenot to work.
Other uses I've found for weblogs? Last year I used Trevor Cook's blog, Corporate Engagement, for a bit of uni work on public relations and information seeking. And to be perfectly honest, I cut my blogging teeth commenting on posts at Worthwhile.com , and through them Frank Paynter's enjoyable SandhillTrek.
Hey, this is better fun than I thought - my son wants my attention already, he knows I'm up to something new! CYALL.
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