#14 Technorati

Over the past couple of weeks I've briefly looked at Technorati. Each time I look at the popular page listings I find that there is a lot of content that doesn't interest me and is not relevant to me. I do understand that it offers an important way of listing blogs and giving searching power. I probably need to spend more time exploring it. When I have looked at Technorati I tend to go off in tangents finding things that are very interesting. Today I came across a Seattle website http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ that give nice lists of blogs in categories for the Seattle area. This is interesting to me as I find it is often the location of a blogger that makes for an interesting blog- the regional flavour.
I have found other blog indexes- Australian ones and specialised blog indexes that present the information nicely.

#13 Tagging and Del.ic.ious

Del.ic.ious offers something we haven't easily been able to do- share bookmarks with colleagues and friends. More than that, it offers the chance to see the bookmarks and labels of other unknown people. I don't particularly like the appearance of del.icio.us screenpages. I do find del.icio.us useful in work situations. I have referred to del.icio.us bookmarks loaded on our library catalogue on a fairly regular basis.

#12 Roll your own search

I found this idea interesting and did the tasks involved in setting up my own search sites. I haven't really seen the potential of this for the libary work I do.

#11 Library Thing

I enjoyed learning about Library Thing. I noticed on many of my favourite blogs, people entered books from their personal library. Now I have managed to do the same.