technorati

Gizmo's and gossip and politics oh my. I noticed on technorati that there is definitely a theme to the top blogs, either hitting on the newest trends in technology, the latest gossip about our favorite famous stars, and of course the strong opinionated blogs about the current political situations not only here in the U.S. but in other countries. Am I surprised that these are the chosen few out of the thousands of blogs out there to have clawed their way to the top 100, not really! Just look at the local newspaper, msn.com or any other popular source of information and you see the same hot topics. Blogs and the ease that we can now search them, with tools like technorati, have given us many more voices to listen to though about our beloved topics.

Del.icio.us

This is a very handy tool, much better than trying to manage my multiple folders, the tags are much more instinctive. I could see where this would be very useful from as a reference tool. Useful sites could be easly organized and accessed by not only staff but also by our patrons if we were to tie it into our website.

LibraryThing

Rollyo 2

I can see where some people would find this a very usefull tool, I liked that I could use pre-created searches, but I do not really have certain sites that I prefer to search more than others. After highjacking other peoples search rolls though I did find it much more useful.

Rollyo

Select...fix it!Rare Book Library SearchCelebrity GossipTop NewsReferenceHealthTravel & HotelsParenting SitesLegalTech NewsRecipesHome RepairSearch The Web

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/vrsteffen This is now my new fav. 2.0 exercise. I really enjoyed adding my books to the catalog, and seeing how many people had the same titles, It also helped me organize a portion of my own collection, the tags were very handy; though I'm afraid if I added all my books I would have to upgrade to a payed account. I also joined the librarians who librarything group, which had a few interesting topics up for discussion. If or when I have more time I think I may have to add comments about my titles.

I created this in portrait illustraion maker http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml. The generators were a lot of fun, I was suprised at how many different ones there were!