Thing #11 of “23 Things”

Finding Good Feeds

I began really early in the morning to work on this Blog (around 6 AM). Three hours later I was still looking for good blogs, reading and watching videos which came back on my searches. This is the problem with searching the internet – you will find all kinds of things that will interest you and you will “spend” time on it without even noticing it. Once again I forced myself to stop and just do my assignment.
Syndic8.com has an unattractive interface but will give your results from different countries (10 random countries) clearly marked plus the newest sites, newest users, most popular etc. It even gives you some statistics.
Thechnorati.com has a more attractive interface with lots of options. Because of this I think it is less intuitive that Google. This one is more like a search engine similar to Google. You can search videos, photos, blogs, news etc.
I could not connect to Feedster.com therefore I can’t say anything about this one. Topix.com looks like an electronic newspapers with ugly and very distractive ads which made this site not appealing to me. When I try doing a search a popup window appeared (even though I block popup on my browser) advertising screen savers. A second search returned zero results but a lot of new adds.
Google Blogsearch is the simplest of the three but more powerful as you would expect from Google. To compare Google with the rest I did a simple experiment. I searched for apsu23things with all of them. Only Google found a lot of stuff – many APSU students’ blogs. It pretty much found everyone’s things including Dr. Wall’s
Then I search my name thinking that perhaps Google will not find me. Surprise, Google found my blog and my other websites. Google is the winner! But we already knew this right?
I added to my Blogs Google Reader:
· Edublog Awards since there are many more Blogs that I would like to read.
· Always Learning by Kim Cofino in Thailand.
· Clif’s Notes on Educational Technology somewhere in the US I think by unknown (Clif!)
· Learning 2.0 by Jason (He is from Texas but also Blogging “Things” like we (APSU) are.
What I like about reading blogs is that Blogs are more personal and can be local. It is like having many friends and being able to talk to them even though sometimes they don’t talk back or even listen. It is like listening to friends without interrupting them and participating in the conversation only after they are done and always when you are ready to say something.

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