Technorati is a directory and search engine for blogs and blog posts. It helps you find blogs on any topic of interest. Technorati is not just a keyword-based search - it also tries to organise blogs using categories and tags.
Blogs on Technorati range from amateur, such as someone's travel blog, to professional. It also ranks blogs according to their authority - which ranks a particular blog according to how many other blogs provide links to its posts.
Your task
Your final task for this week is to locate some blogs about libraries and subscribe to them. You can find these using Technorati, or a similar service such as Google Blog Search, or by following links from other people's blogs.
If you find a blog in Technorati and want to subscribe to it, click on the url which appears under the blog title in the search results list. This will take you to the blog, where you can subscribe to it by following the instructions in the previous task.
Don't forget to blog about this task as well, recommend library blogs to others, or perhaps tell us why you love/don't love RSS and newsreaders.
Advanced tasks for the more adventurous
Create a Link List of your recommended Library blogs which will appear on the sidebar of your blog:
- Log into Blogger
- Click on Dashboard
- Click on Layout
- Click 'Add a Gadget'
- Find 'Link List'and and click the 'Add' button (which looks like a plus sign)
- Give your Link List a title eg: Library Blogs
- Paste the url of the blog in the 'New Site URL' field
- Provide the site's name in the 'New site Name' field
- Click the 'Add Link' button
- Repeat if you want to add several links
- Click Save
OR
Use Blogger's new 'Blog List' feature which allows you to show the lastest items from your favourite blogs in the sidebar of your own blog. For assistance with this, watch Blogger's help video, or follow the steps listed below:
- Log into Blogger
- Click on Dashboard
- Click on Layout
- Click 'Add a Gadget'
- Find 'Blog List'and and click the 'Add' button (which looks like a plus sign)
- Give your Blog List a title eg: Library Blogs
- Select a sorting option from the drop-down menu
- Select the number of blogs that will display from the drop-down menu
- Use the tick-boxes to select your appearance preferences
- Click the 'Add a blog to your list' button link to start adding your favourite blogs. You can either copy and paste the url of the blog or choose to import subscriptions from Google Reader. Make your choice, then click 'Add'.
- Click 'Add to list'
- Click 'Save'
Resources
Next Week
We will be looking at social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook and exploring both their positive and negative points.
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