So there's a Blogdigger group set up for Computers in Libraries. A reasonable idea. It describes itself as "Core bloggers for the Computers in Libraries 2005 conference in Washington, DC." When the group first appeared, it only included the blogs linked to from the official ITI blog. It seems that a few more blogs have since been added, which is good news. I want to point out that there will be plenty of non-"core" bloggers at this conference as well, myself included. Not to take anything away from the great efforts of the "core" bloggers, but I believe these blogs are equally worthy of your time.

This highlights two reasons why I'd prefer a consensual tagging situation over an effort to aggregate individuals. First, you invariably miss people who are talking about the conference. Second, you're aggregating posts that potentially have nothing to do with the conference. This isn't really saving the end-user any time, especially if they subscribe to most of the "core" blogs already. That's not to say the group doesn't serve a very worthwhile purpose, just that I don't feel it provides the strongest return on investment of energy.

Updated: This post has been updated to reflect that the author of the Science Library Pad will not be in attendance at CiL2005.