“blog posting” search box. Technorati has a top 100 blog list,
indicating which blogs are visited the most.
This list is constantly changing depending on how many visits these
blogs get.
On looking over the blog directory, there were certain
categories that were better represented than others. The entertainment, technology, and living
categories seemed to have more blogs. The
sports, science, and green categories did not have as many. The categories were very broad, and the sub
categories were a little less general. There
were a few sub-categories I did not see such as education, vacations, news,
gardening, soccer, and outdoor recreation.
There were several categories that I could not find in
the blog listings, but had better luck with the blog postings. When I typed in ‘library’, I had no luck with
the blog listings, but found out some interesting information in the
postings. One post mentioned a wedding
performed in a library, and another post mentioned a New York Library having a
book returned that was overdue for almost 55 years. I did not find any blogs about ‘gardening’,
yet when I searched through the blog posts I came across several interesting finds,
such as building a ‘Walipini’, or underground greenhouse which produces food
year round. I had better luck when I
searched ‘books’ in the listings, I came across a variety of blogs such as one
for comic books and another for London’s best reads. When I searched in the blog posts, I had
random comments about books.
Would I use this website as a librarian? I do not know yet. I could use it to claim a personal blog I
would create for my school community or one specifically for librarians. Perhaps
this site would be helpful to see how many visits a blog was getting to
determine its authority number which could be an indicator on how trustworthy
the blog may be. I was disappointed that
I did not find any librarian blogs. It
could just be that I am in the wrong website, or maybe I still have more to
learn about the site.
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