#14 Technorati

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the inner workings of Technorati. I see how to use it as a search / blog finding tool, and I understand how they manage their ranking / authority, but somehow it feels like the site hasn't quite clicked for me yet. In an effort to raise the authority ranking of the LPLS Learning 2.0 website a bit above 1, I'm adding a link within this blog entry. Because blogs linking to other blogs is where the authority comes from.

You know, I was thinking that it's cool that Technorati displays videos among its search results. I just did a search for my name (to see if this here blog was listing in Technorati, which is is, with 0 authority -- which shows you that even if you don't go through the claim process, as described in this week's exercise, your blog may still be included in Technorati listings), and what do you know, it included videos from youtube that I'm in (from the Richmond Zine Festival this summer). It also pulled up a video of me and my kiddo (from his grammy's webcam, which we were using to make a video for the kiddo's uncle). And I found a blog post about Linebaugh's zine collection. Course, it also includes links to blog posts & videos that are not me. (Yes, it's still possible, even with a name as uncommon as mine.)

#11 my LibraryThing

I've known about LibraryThing for a while, and I've thought about setting up an account but I never did. So, now I am. I think I'm going to try to use it to keep track of books that I have read or books that I want to read. I've tried a few times keeping a book journal or a reading log, and I always bail out after a few weeks. Maybe this will be easier to maintain! And having some way to keep a 'want to read' list (somewhere other than in my head) will be great.

So here I am: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/jerianne

I think LibraryThing is pretty cool and has lots of interesting and useful features. I'd like to go back later and spend more time exploring, especially the features that are related to libraries. I think that ILS systems could learn a lot from the way people have flocked to, and use, LibraryThing.