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 #13 Delicious Bookmarks, etc.

I already had a Delicious account (hadn't been using it, though). I didn't really know enough about it to make it useful until today. Here are a few things I've done in the last hour:

• Took virtual tours of the Coliseum, Great Wall of China, and 5 more wonders (these were linked from the popular list in Delicious)
• Watched a video of a Berkely professor who opened a hat box and held a human brain in her hand
• Re-discovered how to log in to my Delicious acct.
• Added a feed to the top 10 most popular sites in education from Delicious
• Followed some other links about teaching social networking
• Looked at tag clouds to see current popular tags

Yet another way to keep up with topics that I am currently researching. I don't think there is any way to stay up with what I've set up lately (feeds, bookmarks, etc.) but over time I will see what works best for me and use it to make me a better technology media specialist.

I have not yet figured out how to share my Delicious bookmarks. I'll have to go back and figure that out and pick out a few of my favorite tags to share. OK--I'm back now. Here is a link to an eHow site that explains how to share D. bookmarks:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2019685_sharing-bookmarks-delicious.html