I have no urge to add my blog officially to the technorati blogtracking site – I must admit that I find the image of them ‘spidering’ through new blogs sites to be a little on the creepy side…And I’m not even an arachnophobe. The information supplied about them seemed to state that the site did this automatically for all new blogs – would this simply be to determine it’s level of popularity and whether it was worth listing through their site, or do they actually monitor some of the content of the sites? I can see the advantages of this in a commercial sense … but as I said before, it does seem a little creepy and ‘big brotherish’ of them.
Having said this, it does seem like an interesting way to get your blog known amongst the sea of other blogs. When I did the suggested search for ‘bookmobile’s I was entertained by the site that I included in my title with the poignant tale of about the author’s Mum running away with the bookmobile driver & that their last memory of her was the bookmobile parked down the end of their driveway and their Mum stepping into it. Good to see library staff upholding our noble tradition and creating happy memories everywhere.
I did notice that there wasn’t really any difference when I did the same search using the ‘advanced’ option, but after all, it was a single keyword search and you can’t really judge the capabilities of a search function this way.
I noticed in doing the search for nswpln2008 that the only hits were the blogs from people in our course who used this exact phrase. A big wave to all the library folk who are still plugging along in the course like yours truly.
