Thing #3

Blog search engines --of course! We need to list our Book Blog on a web search engine. Altho I got millions of results when I searched a blog topic in Google blog search engine. The age old question now of how to get your blog listed high enough to be read.
I looked up knitting blogs in 2 search engines, Technorati and Google Blog Search. In Technorati, it was easier to refine the search at the top and there were fewer results. (Does fewer results make them better?) In Google Blog Search, I got over 2 M results--yowza. But I must say that the blogs on the first page look more interesting, and I actually want to click on them and read!

More on Thing #2

(This is a long Thing! more like homework!!)

I read the article "The Ongoing Web Revolution". He comments that trust is key for social computing. I think that sometimes that trust is misplaced. Students trust 'way too much that the information about themselves that they post will not be used by anyone else. Recent articles in the newspapers about employers looking at applicants' Facebook pages, the non-privacy of Google, and even Michael Phelps' picture smoking pot all would seem to point to the fact that the users' information is definitely NOT private!

I want to read the articles about libraries and Facebook. One of our students set us (the library)up a Facebook page. My daughter, who is in PR for a bank, says that banking wants to take advantage of Facebook, too.