I tried topix.net and searched “school library” which yielded 80,364 hits. Of the first 10 or so, none seemed to be of interest to me. I then tried “school librarian” and only got 17,318 hits. Again, nothing interesting. I continued with several combinations of school, library, media, teacher-librarian, specialist, etc. So for me, having someone recommend a professional blog or reading about it in a journal is a better way to find them. I did find some new blogs to look at, but not by using one of the tools listed. I used my peers in this class by looking at their responses.
I viewed the technorati tutorial (and must admit talked with a German accent for the rest of the day). This is more for adding tags to your own blog so that others can find it. I only found it somewhat useful.
I’ve noticed that blogs are often like listening to a running monologue or reading an extended stream of consciousness rant. I agree with Staci that I’d prefer to keep my blog reading to a minimum and focus on those that help me professionally. I was already reading Joyce V, Doug J, Teri L and for fun, Unshelved. I’ve since added Dangerously Irrelevant and rediscovered Jamie Mckenzie’s From Now On. I’m back to my same broken-record rant, “Where do I get the time to read all this?”
As for newsfeeds, I did have a feed from NPR for about a day, but there were hundreds to look at, and I was terribly overwhelmed.
This is a pretty interesting wiki I stumbled on:
Web 2.0 Unconference
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So many Blogs, So little time....and so few that I find worth my time!
I have to admit that most of the blogs that I have found useful I have read reviews of or been introduced to by other people.
I once thought about doing a beading blog....but then I decided I would rather actually bead instead.
Ann
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