We believe that in the blogosphere, the researcher can approach from three different perspectives: from outside to outside, ie the researcher is not part of the blogosphere and published their work on it outside, from inside out, the researcher has a blog but prefers to publish their articles in print publications and the third view, from inside to inside. On these three possibilities, we believe the first is completely wrong, as we believe that a person should not investigate the blogosphere if not part of it, since they can not get to know or understand the currents that occur within the blogosphere and make that blogs are born, develop and establish networks with other blogs. On the other two possibilities for research, the second will probably be passing into history, whether he deserves it clear, and finally, the third possibility, a separate case, ours.

Bibliobloguers do not know whether that actually realized, beyond an approach to publish biblioblogosfera beyond receiving their comments and impressions, we were doing a little social experiment. We all know that the researcher who publishes is then put to the trial of his colleagues. In our case, as bloggers we should submit to the trial of our peers and even due to the nature of this medium of publication, an immediate trial. Do you identify the bloggers? "We also endorse the results? Is the method used? Is it understood our position on all the blogs to study?

Indeed, we received comments, some definitive, some determinants, but all interesting, for better and for worse, we also staged a small controversy, but the balance is positive overall.

But let us leave aside this aspect, already sufficiently clarified, and once again sirvámonos our intuition and self-criticism to guess the weaknesses of this study. Proceed to take a last look at this approach as a conclusion and, thus closing down.

Two ways of looking at biblioblogosfera

This is not a conclusive analysis is not a definitive text for professionals that are dedicated to this and possibly going to address it in a more theoretical. What are the bloggers, what drives them to write what they do, how, what issues are addressed ... aspects of the blogosphere and biblioblogosfera that was not our intention to address and analyze. Our goal was to simply take a look at the biblioblogosfera, try to assess their state and observe its characteristics.

Researchers from the blogosphere should be aware that there are many blogs as people, all different, with different objectives, but nevertheless tend to interact in a similar way. So try to be as aseptic as possible, away from her, trying to follow a method and publish our results arising from such data collection. This is a key moment, as the amount of Biblioblogs that are published has doubled compared to the first study that was done on it and, therefore, it was the right moment to stop and observe and make a first reflection.

In this study, we have approached the biblioblogosfera from two perspectives: the formal and social. But we must say that sometimes, these two contradictory views on some blogs by their nature. For example, our blog and the idea that we defended in this study to try to cover as many of them required only one requirement: that the texts are ordered chronologically. However, obviously, deliberately, two of the most interesting of these: its ability to interact, comments, and its ability to trace networks through links to other blogs of similar theme. For example, we blog for good books and bits, which is maintained in HTML and has no system for managing comments, or Documentation Information that is maintained by Felix del Valle, a professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and managed by Blogger, you do not have what we mean by blogging culture, as no links to any blogs.

These two blogs right from a formal standpoint, are they from a social standpoint? In our view, no. However, we made an approach to the blogosphere with some breadth of vision and therefore we counted as valid despite the reservations that might cause.

This need to cover the largest possible number of Hispanic blogs with a certain relationship with the Library and Information made us choose some that surely other bibliobloguers and its authors were surprised that we included (eg Google or Jarango.com Dirson ). Of course we were aware of the reticence that could cause the presence of these journals in our study but, considering that the Library is much more to talk about books and libraries and it and the documentation are nurtured and benefit from the use of many applications computer, in our attempt to broaden the theme of this study we decided to include them. It would biblioblogosfera itself which issued its opinion and to decide whether or not should be part of it.

For the creation of our list of blogs related to the Library and Documentation handle different data sources, including the first study of biblioblogosfera printed on paper, namely:

• Bibliodocumentales blogs
• Absysnet weblogs Listings
• Categories of Library and Information Blogs DMOZ
• Article The Weblog Phenomenon as New Media: Its Impact on Library and Information fieldof
• November Listing of Biblioblogs Mariela Ferrada

Bibliobloguers How are Hispanics?

After closing the list of blogs that comprise the Hispanic biblioblogosfera discussed some aspects of blogs and people that maintain them. Of course, the bloggers can lie about many aspects of themselves and their blogs, even going to manipulate the dates of publication of his posts, but still being aware of it trying to approach them to try to know them a little better.

Synthesizing the data analyzed, we can say that the first act from perspectives bibliobloguers individual clearly, mostly because the blogs are run by one person. That yes, clearly preferred to identify themselves by name and surname. What we found was quite curious to see how little female presence in biblioblogosfera, being a profession, the librarian and information officer, which is eminently good presence about him.

On the other hand, life is still very short biblioblogosfera. Its explosion occurred in 2003 and previously barely existed a few individual blogs. As for the publication and management systems of these blogs, bibliobloguers used by Hispanics are mostly free, mostly bloggers.

Although the community studied included any Biblioblog published in Castilian, is Spain's largest producer of blogs distancing itself from Latin America which, although comprising a large number of countries, the European fails, probably because of the digital divide. We have not found any Biblioblog published in Spanish but American origin, despite the large Hispanic presence in that country.

Biblioblogs How are Hispanics?

The blogs biblioblogosfera identify each other as belonging to the same community and topic. They tend to link each other by creating bonds of unity and therefore the most important blogs tend to be very close to the number of links.

This reciprocity is reflected in a broad sense of community that is reflected in the graphs that have developed since our study cybermetric. Thus, we have a core of more specifically-themed blogs on Library and Information Science, while dealing more tangential matters would be found outside the facility. For example, Google Dirson, one of the most popular blogs in the Blogosphere, is on the outskirts of the biblioblogosfera and not be part of the community bibliobloguers, although we believe that has a strong link with it.

Moreover, the topic we cover is endorsed by generating the graph Touchgraph Googlebrowser, finding other issues such as Technology, Search Engines & Usability who are relatively close to the biblioblogosfera. Also establish relationships with other Anglo biblioblogosfera blogs.

Regarding this last aspect, Alvaro Roldan gave us a very interesting comment in which we stated that it would help to find the logs that served as nodes for jumping and junction of topics. Obviously, we do not study this aspect of biblioblogosfera, but can be very interesting to take this into account for future study.

Beyond this text

We must indicate that the completion of this analysis, heir to the Flower and Leger, is clearly obsolete: how fast it grows and modifies the blogosphere prevents any current and accurate measurement of it. As noted in Juan Julián Merelo and Fernando Tricas in Article Metrics of the blogosphere of the journal Telos, the realization of a graph on it or on a part of it is too complicated for its intricacy and the relationship of blogging to each other. Proof of this is our first graph generated by UCINET they appear almost all the blogs studied. Presumably, within six months, the figure will be almost impossible to read because of the complexity that is supposed to this type of network.

Moreover, the link count of giving and receiving between them blogs definitely not relevant. Blogs that belong to a community and identify themselves as belonging to it tend to receive the same number of links. If we look at our ranking of the most linked blogs bibliodocumentales, we found that in this community that fact also occurs. However, decompensation and what makes some receive more links than others, due to the presence of dead or necroblogs blogs, of which more below.

But first, we transfer this ranking to the overall numbers of the blogosphere, because the changes are substantial and interesting. For example, using the blog search engine Technorati to get a global calculation of the number of blogs that have linked at some point each Biblioblogs, ranking suffers dramatic changes:

Ranking of this study further linked blogs:

1. See also - 40
2. Catorze.Blog - 35
3. Bido - 29
4. The Documentalist Entangled - 29
5. Documentary Deakialli 2 to 27
6. apropos of - 25
7. Chacobo.com - 24
8. Tekateka - 24
9. Seen and Read - 22
10. Alas y Balas - 20
11. Library - 20
12. Fall in Blog - 20
13. Ramblings on Documentation - 19
14. R020 Library and Information Sciences - 19
15. Information Retrieval on the Web - 19
16. Infosphere - 18
17. Infogestores - 17
18. K-Utopia - 16
19. Amoxcalli Blog - 15
20. Bibliotekarien - 14
21. Deakialli Documentary - 14
22. The Bold Documentalist - 14
23. Methods for - 14
24. Google Tricks - 14
25. Logic Programming - 13

Ranking based on the earlier of most linked blogs using Technorati (7/12/2005):

1. Deakialli Documentary 2 - 110 (blogs that link it)
2. See also - 90
3. The Documentalist Entangled - 64
4. Catorze.Blog - 47
5. Infogestores - 43
6. Bibliotekarien - 41
7. R020 Library and Information Sciences - 39
8. Chacobo.com - 33
9. Library - 31
10. Fall in Blog - 31
11. Alas y Balas - 28
12. apropos of - 27
13. Tekateka - 26
14. Google Tricks - 26
15. Bido - 25
16. The Bold Documentalist - 21
17. Methods for - 28
18. Information Retrieval on the Web - 19
19. Amoxcalli Blog - 18
20. Deakialli Documentary - 17
21. K-Utopia - 16
22. Infosphere - 15
23. Logic Programming - 13
24. Ramblings on Documentation - 13
25. Seen and Read - 9

That is, a blog integrated into the biblioblogosfera may not be relevant, or minor significance, beyond. Definitely, this will serve as a mechanism to detect the actual impact of the biblioblogosfera as part of the blogosphere, although previously we should make a comparison with other sections of it. However, we believe that obviously has relevance biblioblogosfera generally very small.

Necrobiblioblogosfera

Another aspect of loss in our study was the inclusion of blogs or necroblogs dead (dormant, extinct or closed) in link counts already cited. It's easy to conclude that blogs are much more veterans links to blogs latest blogs such as inactive, offsetting and the actual map biblioblogosfera, since the potential importance of other blog is not completely influenced by the -updating of these. A clear example we have in the case of Deakialli Documentary.

Deakialli The case is paradigmatic because it is a blog that is managed by Blogger and Blogspot.com staying in, but throughout this year 2005 its authors decided to change and use content management system Blog Bitacorae and grew to Bitácoras.com stay at. Formally, the blog is the same, same title, same authors, accurate content (texts were imported from blogger), however the necroblogs continued to point to the old address. We decided that the link count of a blog that received should be based on its URL just as the redirected traffic to it, and we could not change the number of bonds that received two different directions of blogs. Would the necrobloguer continue citing it? Should we manipulate our methodology? Was it correct to assume that the necrobloguer take kindly to such manipulation? So things remained as they were, since it is not our intention to change the links that blogs give and receive.

This poses a dilemma about who owns the blog links you get: a URL, or the owner of the blog. Unfortunately, from a technical standpoint, we must conclude that the links belong to the URL.

Thus, we conclude that the inclusion of necroblogs within such presentations all I get is spoiling its image as the blogosphere is a living thing that grows at the same time suffer "casualties" in its cycle vital. The necroblogs despite the relevance that might come to have in the past or not, must be part of history of this and, therefore, consider should be discarded or overlooked in studies of biblioblogosfera cybermetric and the blogosphere.

Offsetting the biblioblogosfera

If a blog community identifies itself and therefore blogs get reciprocal links of equal interest, it is normal for these blogs tend to receive the same number of links and, if we discard the necroblogs, would be quite difficult to establish a ranking appropriate since the number would be similar. For this we believe that the solution may be to establish a weighting of blogs, to get their real weight in the blogosphere, first, to the links they give and receive Biblioblogs between them, and for the overall vision of biblioblogosfera .

One way might be to ponder the traffic they receive blogs, something that is not always public, or check the popularity of these sites within the blogosphere, for example using a specialized search engine on blogs, as we have done previously in this text with Technorati.

They talked about this study:

• eCuaderno - Library and Information Science: blogs ranking
• Comunisfera - The blogosphere documentary

More Analysis of Hispanic Biblioblogosfera:

1. Rationale and preliminary considerations
2. An approximation with a history
3. Cybermetric Study: What, when and where
4. Cybermetric Study: Who and how
5. Charting the map biblioblogosfera
6. Charting the Blogosphere relations
7. Chronology
8. Conclusions