Thing #14Technorati

The videos made Technorati sound easy to use and talked about a Discover section. I could never find that Discover section (which I especially wanted to do because it listed News as a topic and I was interested to see what was there). I was thinking that Technorati might help our UIL current events students. Maybe somebody can tell me exactly how to make it easy for the UIL sponsor to collect news each day--maybe just a Google alert or Google reader?

I do like tags. They make so much sense to me because they are like an index but instead of being alphabetical they are topical and tag clouds really do show quickly what the major tags are. In searching Technorati School Library 2.0, I came up with 244 posts, 0 tags, and 57 blogs. Definitely different results.

Thing #9 Useful library related blogs and feeds

"Twitterature"--this is a new term that I ran across while checking out Technorati. There is a book by this name in which two college students are trying to take great literature and pare it down to 140 characters--thus Twitterature. I did not really like Technorati--it was too busy and I just didn't have time to figure it out.

I liked Syndic8.com because it showed categories like the 10 most popular or 10 most visited. This lead me to add a feed to Teen Reads to my blog.

I plan to access the Atomic Learning tutorials later to help me with this "feed" concept. I am reluctant to add more online "reading" to my schedule right now since I barely have time to keep up with my emails!