Thing 14 Technorati blog search

I haven't used Technorati in the past, but I am a fan of Google Blog Search. I understand tags and tagging, as someone who has a YouTube channel, and also a delicious account. Have explored some searchs on Technorati, there wasn't anything particularly wonderful about it that would make me switch from Google. I did find a little article that compared Technorati and Google blog search http://www.searchenginejournal.com/technorati-vs-google-blog-search-which-is-better/4658/

This was posted at Search Engine Journal.

I do like to search blogs for info as well as the web because I think you can get an insiders view sometimes, and of course sometimes the outsiders view. Way outside, definitely. Always interesting though. I may try Technorati more in the future to see if different searchs give better results.

Thing 12 - Rollyo

I rolled my own search engine for Mounted Games (I always use this as a test for new search engines, as I am familiar with what the results should be, and with the sites that should come up). I wasn't very impressed with the results, as the search results were several years old. I also didn't like the ad interspersed with the actual results. I wouldn't use this again. I had more fun yesterday trying out a site that sent searches to Bing, Google and Yahoo at the same time and then had you vote for which masked results were the best. Google won most of the time I did it, but Bing won once, which was a surprise. I haven't been impressed with the results from Bing so far.

Thing 10 - meet my meez

This was fun - I've played around with avatars before, but never finished one up - this avatar is how I think of myself. My Simpsonized picture that I use on Facebook is more true-to-life, I think!!

Thing 11 - Library Thing Thing

I've had a Library Thing account for a while, as I did a training on book social networking sites a year or so ago, but it languishes unattended. I also have a Shelfari account. One of the best things about Library Thing is the local portion that lists bookstores and literary events in your neighborhood. However, today I came across a great book trailer for an upcoming title - "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters."
http://www.librarything.com/profile/av0055

Anyway, here's my link to my profile if you'd like to see what I cataloged.

Thing 20 - You Tube

I started my YouTube channel in 2007, and use it for loading Mounted Games videos. As of today, I have 86,066 video views from my channel, which I think is good for a niche sport. I also use YouTube just for fun, and have used it in library work to help patron locate old shows, etc. There are some hilarious things posted there, as well as the usual junk. If you'd like to take a look at my channel just go to - http://www.youtube.com/user/av0055

Thing 13 - Deliciously

I've had a delicious account for several years, and like it quite a bit. It's very convenient to be able to access your bookmarks from any computer - I also like the Skydrive file storage site. This was one of my first intros to tagging. I also co manage the Delicious tag cloud on the Reader's Cafe lib guide, and we use it at my branch for our inhouse bookmarks.

The Sixth Thing

I jumped around a bit in my things. Today I took some time to look around Flickr and play with some of the fun mashups. I found a list of 275 mashups - many combos of Google Maps, Flickr and YouTube. There were some that were just fun stuff - posterizing, making a clock of images from Flickr and so on. It amazes me what people will do for fun. The other thing about Flickr is that there are some really excellent photographers posting their work on there. It's a great time sink.