Technorati reminded me that it’s all too easy to start a blog. There certainly are a ton of them out there, and on so many different topics! Using my home town for a search showed just how many people have visited or created a YouTube video with that topic. I felt much more at home reading through Library Weblogs, and looking for old friends.
I’ve been reading librarian.net for a few years now, and adding or deleting blogs to my RSS list. If it takes me a couple of weeks to look at the articles, that’s a pretty clear sign this blog is not for me.
Doing the RSS feed assignment in thing 8 reminded me that there were features I still hadn’t tried in Sage. Sure enough, nice tools to reorganize the list using folders and separators. Now it’s pretty clear that libraries are my main interest (6 VT library blogs, including VLA, and 6 Not VT library blogs). I have 5 book review blogs I look at occasionally (favorite is the NY Times), 5 news feeds, and 2 just for fun.
My favorite blog search engine is still ask a friend. The news feeds came on when I started thinking about how to keep up on Vermont news. A friend suggested Green Mountain Daily (progressive Democratic voices) and Vermont Daily Briefing (Phillip Baruth). Bottom line: it would have taken me months to uncover these without the friendly guidance.
Second favorite blog search engine: noting the blogroll on my favorite blogs. It doesn’t always pan out, but after I see the same site on several blogs the shoe drops.
