I just read on Library Clips that Technorati has released Technorati Mini. This mini search results window floats above your other windows and refreshes every 60 seconds. This means you can search on some topic you're interested … yourself or your blog for instance 
… and you can see what new results pop up every minute.
The one drawback is that this mini search does not search tags … but I'm sure I can safely say “yet.”
I just discovered another bookmarking site. It's called BlinkList Chris Deweese at Clam Chowder explains BlinkList as:
takes del.icio.us one step further and adds network groups. This lets you hook up with other people and form a social circle to share book marks.
I've visited the site and I must say it is awefully pretty. I also read a comment on the ALA TechSource blog that mentions librarians.blinklist.com:
a new space that Meredith from “Information Wants to be Free” is working on.
I'll have to keep an eye on this site.
I love the Internet! Every day there is something new out there. This weekend a new site popped up – Diggdot.us:
Combines stories from digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular into one place. Great for those of us that constantly rotates between the three sites to keep up with the tech world.
Handy!
The other day I did a search for my blog on Bloglines and I came up with 2 results. I assumed that they were both the same so I only clicked one and saw that there were 63 subscribers …. WOW … then yesterday morning when I looked at my subscription to my blog in bloglines there were only 3 subscribers. I couldn't undestand what I posted to make 60 people unsubscribe in one day … but the problem was that my blog has 2 ids in bloglines … 3 people were subscribed to one and 63 to the other … wouldn't it be great if users could come around and tell bloglines when 2 or more feeds are actually the same? Just an idea.
I don't use del.icio.us … yet, but this tool kit is where I'm going to start learning more about it. Thanks blogdriverswaltz for including it in your presentation.
This week C|Net completed a series called Taking Back the Web. The series spanned five days and topics: entertainment, wikis, tagging, maps, and youth. Thanks ::schwagbag:: for pointing it out … now I'm off to read it.
I started using Bloglines at about the same time I started this blog so that I could keep up with what others in the field were writing about … but I'm starting to wonder if it's really the best option.
I have 160 feeds I'm tracking, it's hard enough to keep up with all of them without Bloglines constantly marking things unread that I have read already … why does it do that? What's the deal? On top of that I've notices a pretty big delay between the time content is added to an RSS feed and the time it gets added as new to my Bloglines. Yesterday I visited Library Stuff because I couldn't figure out why there wasn't anything new in Bloglines and there were 2 or 3 (I can't remember now) new articles there that Bloglines didn't tell me about until this morning.
Anyway, I'm going to keep using it, but I'm just wondering what the deal is …
Librarians with Class pointed out a pretty nifty wiki called Library Instruction Wiki which is
a collaboratively developed resource for librarians involved with or interested in instruction … designed to help librarians learn from one another. Use the wiki to find handouts, tutorials, suggested reading, and more!
Under Library Instruction Resources you can find class websites, handouts and much more. This looks like it's going to be a great new tool.
Wow I have a lot of work to do. I just read part of the summary of the Collaboration, Social Software and E-Learning presentation at the KMWorld & Intranets conference that's going on right now … and they mention a site with the top 55 sites to submit your blog/rss feed to … but guess what … it's not just 55 sites. Since it was published the list has grown to 145 sites!! Check it out … I have to get working on submitting
Some people aren't fans of RSS … or just don't get it … for people like that there are 2 services (that I know of) that may be of interest to you. One I learned about awhile ago, Rmail lets you put in the address of the RSS feed you want to get via email (and your address of course) and it will send you updates when they're available.
The other service offers a bit more. It's called Blogarithm, it lets you put in the site URL (no RSS URL necessary) and it too will email you updates. The thing that's different about this service is that Blogarithm recently introduced a discovery search. This means you can plug in a URL of a blog you like to read and it will suggest other feeds it thinks you might like. Bloglines does this via their related feeds link (and I personally think they do it better), but I want you to know all of the options out there. Enjoy!
