The Annoyed Librarian Shares Her Blogging Secrets

AL gives expert advice in How To Library Blog: http://annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-library-blog.html

Ask.com

Fun, quick and accurate, Ask.com displays results without the usual clutter of aggregated sites. You don't even have to type in the entire phrase, suggested searches pop up with each word. The web results are front and center, more search options on the left, images, videos, and in the case of musicians "Popular Tracks" playing excerpts of their hits, on the right. Try out the Binocular option, hold the cursor over the binocular image to the left of the web title to see a thumbnail of the page.

digg labs: Stack

I'm fascinated with the way information is being transformed into visual data. The digg labs news aggreagator Stack displays news stories submitted to them in real time.

http://labs.digg.com/stack/

10x10 News

Take a look at the interesting presentation format on this site.
10x10
http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html
Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.

Giving to charity while searching the Internet

The GoodSearch http://www.goodsearch.com/
(scroll down to link at bottom of screen)
Powered by Yahoo, GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. Click on "Participating Nonprofits," choose your charity and you are ready to begin your Internet search and contribute to a worthy cause.

Silobreaker search engine

Take a look at this great new search engine, Silobreaker http://www.silobreaker.com/
for news and current events. The front page tracks international news stories from many sources including blogs, and you can search for news hot spots with geo-mapping. Great homework helper and for news junkies.

New to this blog

I'm just giving this a test to see what happens. I have created a Facebook page for the Ridgecrest Branch and have included a few photos. Check it out and give me your comments!