Searching Bloglines for RSS feeds and useful blogs is time consuming and I did not find library resources easily, though technology resources are rampant. Evaluation is up to the consumer as they are often listed by most recently added, most popular, and all time popular. Sometimes the user can see the number of times a widget, feed, or blog has been uploaded, which is of some help, but searching for specific types of resources is very limited and the user (me) has to go through a lot of frogs before finding a kissable one.
I went to Topix and was impressed that it brought content from my locale instantly with just a click. However, it also brought very annoying popups that were really a pain to get rid of. Our newspaper does have a website and local forums and updates that can be subscribed to--so I put that on Bloglines and iGoogle. I really prefer iGoogle (have I said that before?). I searched CSLA on both Bloglines and Google--and Google found it, but Bloglines did not. I would be interested in hearing from Bloglines users about why they like it.
Uploading too many is probably a worse decision than uploading too few. On my Google Reader I had only a few rather dependable feeds and blogs and still I do not get to them all. Now sheer mass may prevent good use. Going through Thing #9 has added numerous feeds and blogs that will no doubt astound and confound me.
On Edublogs I found Free Technology for Teachers, listed as the 2010 Edublog Awards Best Individual Blog. It is a great resource and went on Google Reader and into Delicious. At Syndic8, I found the least attractive, most user unfriendly site I have seen in a while.
When I searched Google Blog, School Library Learning 2.0 came right up--a real improvement over some of these sites. No one was talking about School Library Learning at Blog Pulse, but the site came up asap,
I love the widgets/gadgets available, tools for almost any trade, especially mine.
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