Okay...Now for THING #3! BLOG SEARCHING!
For my first Blog search I used Technorati. My search term was “green libraries”. I ended up with 956 results. The blog that most appealed to me was actually on the second page of the results. The Blog is http://greeningyourlibrary.wordpress.com/. There are links to environmental sites as well as tips and articles.
I then used Google’s Blog search. I typed in the same term and got 6 million hits! I thought maybe it was not searching just the Blogs. I then selected the “search the web” option and got 28 million hits! I liked that I could create an email alert for my topic. Some of the same sites appeared on the Google search and the Technorati search. I found a site from the Google search that I really liked. It is The Green Library at http://thegreenlibraryblog.blogspot.com/. I went ahead and subscribed to the RSS feed.
Searching for Blogs is really just like searching for any content on the Web. I am sure if I played around with adding search terms I could have gotten my results to a more manageable number.
So now I can start a Blog, post to a Blog, and find a Blog! I guess I am now almost Blogalicious!
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