Thing 7

It was interesting to look at the various tools to help find blogs to subscribe to. I've always just relied on plain dumb luck to find blogs I was interested in. I didn't add any today as I already get more feeds than I can keep up with. Who has time to read all this stuff and still work? At what point to do we reach info overload? There is some really good stuff out there but my Bloglines account is starting to look like that pile of professional journals I keep meaning to read and never get to. ;P

We do need to know these kinds of things because this is how many in the world get their information now. And if libraries are going to the curve or even be ahead of the curve, we need to be in the know. What was confusing about this? The search tools homepages seemed "busy" and you really had to be committed to searching through them. I'm somewhat surprised by this when you think about the "clean" look of Google, and we know how successful Google is!