Week 4, thing 9

While getting this thing ready for O! What a Geek I tried searching on the Topix, Syndic8 and Technorati (for the record, I dislike these "cute" names which are difficult to spell. I have enough problems spelling). I didn't much care for any of them.

Technorati was okay for locating some blogs. I tried searching on Melbourne, Australia to see what came up and found a news blog that was about commuter cycling in New York and that there had been a bicycle recent accident in downtown Melbourne.

I also used Bloglines search tool and found some cooking blogs -- I found it more interesting to find other blogs by looking at what a blogger had on his or her blog roll than using the search tools.

I generally found the search tools for feeds not too helpful. What I disliked most, particularly with Technorati was the duplication of search results and how difficult it was to get out of the Technorati environment and to the full blog. I would not want to subscribe to a blog on the basis of one post -- I want to look at other posts and that was difficult to do in Technorati. Bloglines is a bit easier to navigate that way.

Looking forward to playing next week!

Week 4, thing 8

I learned about RSS feeds a while back from Michael Sauers's workshop. I set up feeds in Bloglines. I checked them occasionally. I forgot my password and didn't check them -- oh boy too many feeds, too much to read -- set them all to read and they all go away.

With the O! What a Geek program I rediscovered my password and restarted using the RSS feeds. I have some good ones already set up -- various blogs that connect with library things from cataloging & tech services issues to those to do with the Think Tank and future thinking. And then some for fun --with cooking & knitting. There is great information there!

I also have subscribed to several co-worker's blogs through Blogger and will use that as a way of keeping up with what they are doing.

Now I just need to keep checking in on Bloglines so the to read feeds isn't overwhelming.