#13 Del.icio.us

Another handy organising tool. I love the idea of bookmarking(tagging)sites to one place. I can be on holidays at an internet cafe or at home and not have to remember sites bookmarked on my work pc. I also had fun searching topics on Del.icio.us and finding like-minded people and exploring their tags.

#12 Rollyo

Nice to be able to limit searches to known or reputable sites. I may use this at work for discovering book reviews for patrons. The recipes searchroll useful too, not to mention my own brilliant (and completely self-indulgent!) personalised searchrolls.

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#11 Librarythang

Not a bad gizmo. A good way to convey reading interests or recommendations.

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As the gossip-mongers are telling it, a football stadium full of pornographic barmaids controversially worshipped nose picking Paul.

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#9 Finding feeds

The previous exercise in bloglines was probably my favourite so far, in that I'm able to control and reign in information to a single source. This is one tool that I will probably continue to use. My family resembles the United Nations, so I'm always on the lookout for the latest information on Argentina, India, The Netherlands etc. RSS would be a great way to stay in touch with relevant news. However I found "finding feeds" through Feedster, Topix.net etc., a bit hit and miss. The Bloglines search tool seemed to be the best. The content appears to be edited to some degree.

#8 RSS Bloglines

I've always been impressed with people on blogs and newsgroups that constantly submit relevant, interesting and topical information gleaned from websites. I assumed they spent too much time trawling web sites, emails etc. Now I know the secret! Very useful for keeping up with news and developments for work and personal interest type stuff, not to mention dinner party banter (ie boing boing)! Here's my public blogline: www.bloglines.com/public/conanthelibrarian