Blogging. I know, I know -- it's soooo, like, 2004. But, apparently some people are still interested! And they're writing books about it! And of course Dewey classifiers have to put this stuff somewhere ... but where exactly? How about 006.7 Multimedia systems--computer science? Or 070.442 Commentaries--journalism? Or 070.57973 Web publishing? Or 302.231 Digital media--sociology? Hmm, seems as if there are quite a few options. Sure, the final classing decision will depend on the classifier's interpretation of the perspective taken by the work -- so books giving instruction in the use of blogging software, for instance, might go in 006.7, while directories of blogs (like bibliographies of web sites) would go in 025.04, works discussing the sociological aspects of blogging would be classed in the 300s, and so on. As for where to put works about RSS feeds -- well that's another story. We've got our own ideas ... How about you?
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