Technorati Tango

Bloggers, following blogs that follow blogs. At least Technorati has some organization and searchability, or you'd never find anything in blogdom. I did my poking around in Technorati, looking for "learning 2.0" and discovered that tags seem to link to more blog sites than searching in the directory. I did some exploring and found a pretty good library-ish site that I enjoyed: Librarian by Day. This blog did come up when I searched tags on Technorati for "learning 2.0" but didn't appear in other searches elsewhere. Hmmm. I did not claim my blog on Technorati as it required a sign-in/registration. But I did ping my blog.

Tag, You're It!

It took a while for me to figure out tagging. Sure, I listened to the tutorials, and I did poke around in delicious, but it looked like mostly computer technology and web design related stuff. Tagging sounds like a great way to better correlate the Web, but it may be too little too late. Since the web design and development links on delicious were sometimes over my head, I tried "travel" as a tag. I found one link, "Hotels to Stay In Before You Die," that was interesting. I think I'm going to need to explore further to get a better handle on tagging.

Gaming

Just read an interesting & appropriate article from the BBC News feed on gaming. According to the article, it's not just geeky, overweight guys gaming--40% of gamers are female.

For simple gaming, nothing beats Bejeweled, which I play at home a bit too frequently, usually late at night when insomnia hits me. I prefer Bejeweled 2 through the Yahoo Games link, however. Better sound effects & animation. Next I played an interactive game, Free Rice. I tried language subject German, harking back to high school German class. Didn't do too horrifyingly, and I think someone might get a small bowl of rice for my efforts.

7 Degrees of Separation...

Social networking looks like a terrible investment of time. Not sure this is really for me, but I did create a MyFace account. It just looked a lot easier than MySpace. What was weird was all the people it pulled up that matched my educational profile. My high school was huge, and I graduated a year early, so I don't know these people. College--well, my graduation year was for my Masters degree, so there's even more folks I didn't go to class with. It just feels a little creepy that MyFace automatically pulled these profiles all together with what little information I gave for my profile.

Chatter

Did you know that the word "chat" has its root in "chattering" as in the noisy chirping of birds? The word evolved to mean "idle conversation."

I did try to chat, really. But my son--who is ALWAYS chatting on his computer--would not respond, so I don't know if I did something wrong, or if he freaked because his mom was inviting him to chat. So I had to phone him and he talked me through chat. How redundant! But yes, assignment completed. I did actually chat.

More Feeding...

I finally found another feed that I like--sewing! It's got crafty hints and sewing projects, which is great. Appropriately, for creating the perfect multi-loop bow just in time for Christmas, click here.

Feed Me!

RSS feeds are not exactly new to me, but I've never really subscribed and kept track before. I didn't know that there were sites to actually facilitate keeping track of the feeds. I subscribed to BBC World News--the only place where you will really find out what the world thinks about America; then to Librarian.net, which I've been reading for years; next Unshelved--the library comic strip that is altogether too real sometimes. Looking at this really short list, I realize I need to do more poking around and find some more interesting feeds...Suggestions, anyone?