In recent years Web 2.0 has had a significant effect on faster flow of information and communication. A blog is one of the tools of Web 2.0. Thanks to ease of access and simplicity of use it has become very popular in the field of library and information science. The purpose of the master's thesis was to present certain Slovene and foreign blogs and to find out whether there is a link between Google PageRank and our selection of blog's quality criteria. The analysis focuses on eight foreign and two Slovenian blogs. We compared the posts on blogs in the period from January to July 2015. Initially we wanted to include four blogs with the highest PageRank (according to the list of LIS Wiki) but we later found out that PageRank's have changed since this list was published. In an expert study, we have described, compared and evaluated blogs. We have found that there is a moderate correlation between the quality criteria and Google PageRank. We noticed that the amount of communication between readers and bloggers decreased. Librarians will have to think about the additional promotion or the transformation of their blogs.
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