Del.icio.us
I am familiar with tags and even did some in the DISCUS class I took at the TLC. Del.icious is one of those sites I keep coming across and I've actually gone to it before just to check it out. I signed up for an account this time although I've only bookmarked four sites. I can see how it would make organizing hundreds of sites easy through the use of tags. The most fun I had was doing searches and finding different sites tagged by other users. I found two I really liked - a list of 140+ different search engines and free internet radio through http://www.pandora.com/ - which I added to my bookmarks there. I've learned about different search and metasearch engines in my classes but I feel like I still always use Google so I bookmarked this so I could start using others. The radio site is neat because it builds a radio station around a particular band/artist or song. Pretty cool! Anyway, del.icio.us must be popular with librarians because I looked at the popular and recent saves and noticed many library-oriented sites. I guess it makes sense seeing as del.icio.us is about organizing information!
Technorati
So, I checked out Technorati and did the three searches of "library 2.0" in keyword, tag, and blog. The keyword search was definitely not as refined as the other two. In fact, I did the search as an exact phrase and even tried putting quotation marks around it but it would bring up posts with just "library" or just "2.0" which I thought was strange. For me, I liked the tag and blog directory searches the best because the number of posts and blogs brought up was smaller and they definitely had library 2.0 as their subject matter. I went in the the FAQs (I had to go through the Help menu to find it) and looked up Authority and found out the Authority number equals the number of sites that link to a blog. However, when I clicked on the Authority for one of the Library 2.0 blogs, the first page of its Authority links were for Cialis, ringtones, Zoloft, etc. Now this wasn't the case with all of them because I checked out a few more, but this blog had an Authority of 119, well above some others, and it seems strange that these sites were considered "authoritative". Besides this, I do like this site. A search engine dedicated specifically to blogs is a good idea and I like it better than Google's blog search. In a search of Popular, I wasn't surprised to find that the top blogs were about, what else? - blogs! I had to check out www.boingboing.net because it is Technorati's most popular blog. Strange but fascinating!
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