Week Six, Thing 14b

It worked! I have officially claimed my blog and I found it through a search on mdlearn2 on Technorati. I did play around with some other searches too. One thing that surprised me was the number of non-personal sites that were favorites. Some were really business tools, I guess. I thought I might find more fun and funky blogs that I loved. I did find a blog for a restauranteur in Cape Town. Somehow he had the Learning 2.0 tag in there somewhere. Anyway, the top searches seemed about par for the course. Paris Hilton was way up there! So were the Sopranos, which makes perfect sense since the finale was last night. There was some crossover between favorited blogs and top blogs - not surprising. It will be fun to check back as more people doing this project get to Week Six.

Week Four, Thing 9

Wow! I really have to stop looking around for junk to add to my bloglines page: http://www.bloglines.com/public/ChristinaK. There's no way to keep up with the amount of information I've now inundated myself with. They all looked so interesting though. I had the most fun with Technorati. First of all, the sight was the most eye-catching. Lame, but true. I found a really cool blog for The Lost Girls. A bunch of chicks from NYC quit their jobs to travel the world. I stumbled upon that one when I did a search for South Africa. I tried a few different searches in each of the featured tools. Syndic8 didn't lead me to anything interesting at all. Topix led me to a local news gatherer, so we'll see how that works out. Of course, that means that there has to be actual local news. ;-) If I had a more specific purpose, I might have more insightful things to say. I was really just poking around and looking for fun topics. The Merlin site was easy to add. Bloglines does make it pretty simple. Well, I have about a million feeds to read, so I'd better get to it.