BlogTogether

Turned out there were more bloggers than students today, but the three Durham residents who did show up at the Durham County Library to learn about blogging got lots of attention from Pam Spaulding, Brian Russell and Bora Zivkovic. My sincere thanks to these blogging friends for volunteering a beautiful Saturday morning to teach others how to use a blog as a tool of expression and communication.

Grad students at UNC-CH want to know about blogger perceptions of digital archiving: bq.. Do you blog? If yes, then please consider participating in an online survey from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. The study, Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation, is being conducted under the guidance of the Real Paul Jones. The study team is interested in hearing from all bloggers on their perceptions on digital preservation in relation to their own blogging activities, as well as the blogosphere in general. [For] more about this survey, please visit the study’s fact sheet at http://www.ils.unc.edu/~hcarolyn/blogsurvey/. From there, you can link out to the web-based survey. The survey will be available from April 25 through May 23, 2007. We believe blogs are valuable records of the human experience. Help to contribute to continued access to these important records by participating in our study. p. Ruby took the survey.. I’m about to start it now. Why don’t you contribute, too.

The food blogging ball is rolling — I’m finally off my duff and planning for the series of events around food and blogging for this summer and early fall. Check the food blogging wiki page if you’re interested in helping plan this. Here’s an event I hope I can attend and blog: Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini will speak at NCSU May 23rd at 7pm as part of the Farm-to-Fork celebration of Local Foods and Local Farms. (Don’t miss Corby Kummer’s excellent article in the May 2007 Atlantic Monthly, The Supermarket of the Future, about a slow-food grocery store in Turin, Italy.) If you read Michael Pollan’s essay in last Sunday’s NYTimes Magazine, You Are What You Grow, you’ll see that there’s a movement to get our country back on a sane farming and eating practice. Our BlogTogether food blogging idea is another local way to celebrate the good farming and good food in our community. [Cross posted to mistersugar.com]

Public Library of Science was a sponsor for the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference — they provided the t-shirts — and they’re looking for an Online Community Manager. Looks like a cool job, based in San Francisco: bq.. You will be responsible for managing the PLoS ONE user community, monitoring the discussion threads, expanding membership and organically growing the site based on community feedback. PLoS ONE will be adding new technology to foster relationship-building throughout the year and you will help shape this technology. You will also work with focus groups and external communities to gather feedback and promote PLoS ONE. This should not be your first role with an online community. We would like a couple of years experience working directly within an online community, preferably with an online scientific community. p. If you’re interested, submit your resume immediately, and let me and Bora know you’ve applied so we can mention your application to our contact at PLoS.

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Chapel Hill bloggers will meet Wed, April 18 at 6:30pm at Milltown Restaurant and Bar in Carrboro (across the street from the Cat’s Cradle). Bharat has organized this meetup, so look for him when you get there.

After the Easter break, TTHT is coming back. Next edition of the Tar Heel Tavern will be hosted this weekend by Bharat of Olive Ridley Crawl (the turtle-friendly blog). Send your entries by Saturday night to: theoliveridley at gmail dot com

Wow – check out some of the 190 entries to the Smashing Magazine logo contest. If you missed entering that contest, there’s still time to send me your entry for the BlogTogether logo contest.

For Tar Heel Tavern. E-mail me ASAP if you want to host this weekend (or the next one, or next one, or next one….): Coturnix AT gmail DOT com