Week 6 Technorati & Delicious

Liked the idea of the flat heirarchies with the tags on del.icio.us and that if you used 'daily' as one of your tags you could pull up all the sites you would normally keep track of daily. Interesting to see who and how many people have used particular tags and what other tags they have used. So another surfing tool and another way of storing and accessing favourites. Not so keen on the interface and display of search results - it all seems to run together, nothing stands out.
Created an account anyway (see link on sidebar) as reckon that once I've done all the exercises will decide which tools to keep.

So joined up to Technorati as well. I'm sure I'll continue to use this for keeping abreast of who's blogging what about topics of interest. For instance, I searched for Tame Iti in an All Blogs search, as I'm following this issue, and got better information and pictures/video than I would Googling or at news sites. This even if posts haven't been tagged (only one result in tag search).
Not sure what 'authorities' means on Technorati though.

Week 5 Rollyo

A good idea to save time by filtering results to certain websites. Most useful I guess for a topic you want to keep abreast of and not just have RSS feeds coming from one or two sites, and to exclude sites which you don't find useful. I have added my searchroll to my blog.

Library thing Week 5

This and Flickr are my favourite sites so far. Library Thing is sooo well laid out. Nice brief tour which lets you know what it's all about, all the extra functionality on one page (Tools), great visibility for the various groups so it would be relatively easy to find ones that interest you. It's great that it caters for multiple languages. Word for the day is chiclet which is the name of the symbol I've added to my blog which links to my Library Thing.

Image generators Week 5

This is a fun idea and the possibilities are endless. I now know how all those 'joke' pictures are done which people e-mail you (like the cat with the machine gun that's had a hard day). How to be creative without having to be too creative. If I find time I'll go and look for some others. This is at http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone

Week 4 Search for feeds

Had a quick look at these tools and not inspired by any of them in the limited time I had. Searched for a library topic as instructed on Technorati - erms (electronic resoruces management systems) and found mostly blogs using text shortcuts. Now intrigued what erms short for in text language. Checked out Feedster. Its search tips said that the results would hide multiple hits of the same thing but I didn't find that to be the case. Then looked at Topix which had a much more lively homepage but put off by the heavy US bias of the news feeds. Think I'd rather rely on word of mouth and serendipity than actively searching for feeds.