This is the first installment of a multipart series on the state of blogging in museums. I’m hoping to build on the topic started by Paul on the Off Center blog as well as preparing resources to share for an upcoming workshop. When we submitted our proposal for a workshop at Museums and the Web 2006 the Museum blogging field was sparse, well the blog landscape isn’t as small as it was a year ago…

Chin Music Press has a partial translation of a Japanese article about publishers making text available via cell phone. Popular writer Asa Nonami … contributed “Anata,” an original piece. For 210 yen a month, readers have unlimited access to stories. Series are updated every week from Monday through Friday. Subscribers currently number 30,000, 70% of whom are women in their late teens to 30s. “The great…