a. The UC Berkeley article was moderately confusing. From what I gathered, the invisible web is the one you can't get by searching with a normal search engine. It includes results from databases that you need to use their search engines specifically to get to or the pages that are created when you search with a particular query. For example, the pages that are created when you search for an author or title on our Library's site would count as part of the invisible web.
The Wikipedia article it links to was a little bit more helpful, but had more information. I'm still not sure why I would need the deep web. I can use databases on their own, if I find one that'll be helpful. Also, if Google can find me millions of hits, do I really need to find billions in the deep web? It seems like not being able to access the deep web is a problem that's not really a problem for most people.
b. As of today (10/31/12), the Infomine site is unavailable. I'll keep checking.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
3. Create Your Own Blog & 4. Follow Someone's Blog
3. Item 3 is pretty self-explanatory. I created this blog that you're currently reading. For some reason, it seems very meta to me.
Also, I've also included a page of all 23 Things. Click the "The List" tab at the top to find it. I'm going to change each item into a link to their blog posts as I finish so that if I end up doing them out of order or you just want to find them quickly, they'll be there for your reading enjoyment!
4. If you haven't already noticed, there's a little section to the right titled "Fellow 23 Things Projects". These are my colleagues' blogs for the 23 Things Project we're doing at the Library. I'll add more to this list as I find them. I may also start listing my favorite wedding sites and blogs. Be on the lookout!
Since, hopefully, someone will eventually read this blog, I'm going to ask a question. Do you think that I should include an "about me" section on the blog? I'm writing the blog through the account that I also write the Book Club blog, so if you look for my profile, it'll be the Library and not me personally. Let me know if you think it would be helpful, harmful, mostly blah to have a section about me in the comments section below. Thanks!
Also, I've also included a page of all 23 Things. Click the "The List" tab at the top to find it. I'm going to change each item into a link to their blog posts as I finish so that if I end up doing them out of order or you just want to find them quickly, they'll be there for your reading enjoyment!
4. If you haven't already noticed, there's a little section to the right titled "Fellow 23 Things Projects". These are my colleagues' blogs for the 23 Things Project we're doing at the Library. I'll add more to this list as I find them. I may also start listing my favorite wedding sites and blogs. Be on the lookout!
Since, hopefully, someone will eventually read this blog, I'm going to ask a question. Do you think that I should include an "about me" section on the blog? I'm writing the blog through the account that I also write the Book Club blog, so if you look for my profile, it'll be the Library and not me personally. Let me know if you think it would be helpful, harmful, mostly blah to have a section about me in the comments section below. Thanks!
2. Technorati
a. Technorati is one of those online things that I had heard about, but never paid that much attention to. So it was nice to finally figure out what it was by reading the Wikipedia article. The summary was helpful; the rest of the article- not so much. Basically, Technorati is a search engine for blogs that rates the blog's "authority". A blog's "authority" is measured by the number of different blogs that link it.
b. After clicking around, I think that Technorati has its uses. I like that if I was looking for blogs on politics or lifestyle, there's a quick and easy way to find the best of those categories. I also like that once you find a blog you're interested in, it gives you a summary of the blog, the tags it uses most often, all of its rankings on Technorati, etc.
I don't like, however, that if you're looking for something outside their categories- weddings, for instance- there's no quick way to find them. You can search for posts or blogs and it'll find them for you, but they're not sorted by authority, the way that the other blogs are. It also doesn't just find you wedding blogs. It will find you any blog having even the tiniest to do with weddings. Photographers, personal wedding blogs- you name it, it found 5,317 of them.
I think, in general, I would use Technorati if I was looking for something specific, like a really great cooking blog or what political story was blowing up the internet. That being said, I don't think I would use it all that often.
b. After clicking around, I think that Technorati has its uses. I like that if I was looking for blogs on politics or lifestyle, there's a quick and easy way to find the best of those categories. I also like that once you find a blog you're interested in, it gives you a summary of the blog, the tags it uses most often, all of its rankings on Technorati, etc.
I don't like, however, that if you're looking for something outside their categories- weddings, for instance- there's no quick way to find them. You can search for posts or blogs and it'll find them for you, but they're not sorted by authority, the way that the other blogs are. It also doesn't just find you wedding blogs. It will find you any blog having even the tiniest to do with weddings. Photographers, personal wedding blogs- you name it, it found 5,317 of them.
I think, in general, I would use Technorati if I was looking for something specific, like a really great cooking blog or what political story was blowing up the internet. That being said, I don't think I would use it all that often.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
1. Become Familiar with Blogs
I would say that I'm already pretty familiar with blogs. I write the blog for the Library's Virtual Book Club and many of my friends have their own personal blogs that I read. However, I'm hoping that this blog will allow me to do more than just write about books- hence, the combination 23 Things/Wedding blog!
a. When you google "blogs", about 3,530,000,000 results appear. This is an astounding number and a little bit overwhelming. Instead of just randomly clicking through blogs, I decided to hit up Google's Blogs of Note. This site is really helpful if you want to find great blogs, but don't really care what kind, since the layout doesn't make it very easy to find a specific kind of blog. I loved Nouveau Cheap, a super cute site devoted to cheap/drugstore makeup (my guilty pleasure), and Grilled Cheese Social, where the lovely author talks about her life in conjunction to fancy grilled cheese sandwiches! I will definitely be making the Bushwick Painkiller soon!
But since this blog is going to be more "wedding" than "delicious, bad for me things", I decided to google "wedding blogs". It brought me 368,000,000 results. The first results was a guide to the 100 best wedding blogs, so I figured this would be a good place to start. Like most things wedding related, you can get sucked into the blogs for hours at a time. My favorite so far, The Perfect Palette.
b. Blog.com was an ok site. They seemed intent on getting you to sign up for their hosting service, the templates were impossible to look at past page 1, and there weren't enough places to find some of the blogs. About the only place I could find them was all the way at the bottom of the homepage under "Blog.com Awards 2011". I take the ok back; it was a mediocre site at best.
a. When you google "blogs", about 3,530,000,000 results appear. This is an astounding number and a little bit overwhelming. Instead of just randomly clicking through blogs, I decided to hit up Google's Blogs of Note. This site is really helpful if you want to find great blogs, but don't really care what kind, since the layout doesn't make it very easy to find a specific kind of blog. I loved Nouveau Cheap, a super cute site devoted to cheap/drugstore makeup (my guilty pleasure), and Grilled Cheese Social, where the lovely author talks about her life in conjunction to fancy grilled cheese sandwiches! I will definitely be making the Bushwick Painkiller soon!
But since this blog is going to be more "wedding" than "delicious, bad for me things", I decided to google "wedding blogs". It brought me 368,000,000 results. The first results was a guide to the 100 best wedding blogs, so I figured this would be a good place to start. Like most things wedding related, you can get sucked into the blogs for hours at a time. My favorite so far, The Perfect Palette.
b. Blog.com was an ok site. They seemed intent on getting you to sign up for their hosting service, the templates were impossible to look at past page 1, and there weren't enough places to find some of the blogs. About the only place I could find them was all the way at the bottom of the homepage under "Blog.com Awards 2011". I take the ok back; it was a mediocre site at best.
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