Thing 3...searching the blogosphere

I love all the new vocabulary that the internet has brought about. I remember hearing about weblogs maybe 10 years ago. Many started as political rants. Weblogs turned to blogs and now we have a "blogosphere." It's right up there with atmosphere and hemisphere and connotes something really big. I first heard the term "blogosphere" a year ago from my friend's 25 year old, New Yorker niece, (very hip) and she was always searching for election gossip, especially Obama info since she was a big supporter. She told me about the Huffington Post , which I had never heard of previously. I checked it out and found it was like reading a newspaper editorial. I realize, especially now that I am writing a blog, that the blogosphere is universe of editorials. Some interesting (especially if they agree with your opinion) some boring.

I searched Technorati, Blog Pulse and Blog Lines (notice the hyperlinks!). Technorati has the best reputation it seems or is the mostly widely known. I did the same search on all three search engines . The search was "library budget cuts" in quotation marks and Technorati gave me 2 results that we 90 and 97 days old. I got better results in Blog Pulse and Blog Lines which delivered many of the same articles.

It's all very interesting and I keep thinking about that video that said something like we are bombarded with more information in 24 hours than most people 100 years ago got in a lifetime. I think, do I want this much information? Is this what I want to be doing with my time.

I'm doing it for 23 Things, so that I'm informed, but really I'd rather be outside.