My Favorite Blogs

Here is my list of favorite blogs. In no particular order.

- Agent B Files
- Jesus Creed
- D.C. Sports Bog
- Dan Shanoff
- Crunchy Con
- Mavs Courtside View
- Ubiquitous Librarian
- What I Learned Today
- Kept Up Academic Librarian

Technorati Top 100

I recently glanced over the Technorati Top 100 blogs to see if I can observe any trends. Here are some of my musings -

- A sports blog didn't show up until number 76 (AOL Fanhouse). I subscribe to several sports blogs and find sports to be a natural blogging topic. I would have thought that there would be more sports blogs on the list.
- Only two of my subscriptions showed up on the top 100. The Freakonomics Blog at 61 and Stereogum at 80.
- It looks as if Technorati determines popularity based on number of unique links to blogs and by the number of people who have marked a blog as a favorite. What about subscriptions? Wouldn't a good way of determining popularity be to determine how many people subscribe to the blog? Maybe since there is such a wide variety of blog feed readers there is no way to determine the number of subscribers. Surely there is a way from the blog itself to chronicle subscriptions. Maybe I should seek my answers in one of the many tech blogs out there that are so popular.
- The blogs on the list that tempted me to subscribe were PostSecret and 43 Folders.

23 Things Post

I attended the 2007 Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, California. At the conference, Helene Blowers and Meredith Farkas presented on learning and training in the world of blogs, wikis, and web 2.0. I have gradually begun to wade through some of my notes from the conference and play with some of the toys that were presented by Blowers and Farkas. I have started Farkas and co.'s 5 Weeks To A Social Library and Blowers' 23 Things. This post fulfills one of the 23 Things which was to create a blog and post.

I am only 32 and cut my library teeth when Google was in its infancy so I am not immune to the web and its possibilities. Still, I found myself wary of new technology and nervous that I was missing something. I have had blogs before but none related to my job as a reference librarian at a private university. So I created this blog and am moving full force into the 21st Century. Thank you to Blowers and Farkas for showing the ease in which new learning can be done and for providing such a simple framework for accomplishing needed library learning.