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Thing 9: Library related blogs to track

So far, I've put in James' blog for 23 things, along with blogs from Merlin, ALA's Public Programs Office, and the LOC's poetry events.

Feedster frustrated me because it kept telling me to create a widget, but I just wanted to see the results of my search.

Technorati: I'm curious about how "authority" gets established, and I was amused when I saw what I thought to be an irreverent "WTF" section. It stands for "Where's the fire" (hot sites), but I read it, in my confused state, as a much more edgy WtF?!@

I know that we are slowly organizing all web content with our tags, but it still is a challenge to search well for these things! I tried in vain to find some good library adult programming sites, and I brought up so much junk! I would have thought that ALA's PPO feed would come up, but it certainly wasn't in the early results! Maybe the best way to find appropriate links is to go to established blogs on the topic and see what they recommend--follow their breadcrumbs.

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