Sunday, April 13, 2008

Technorati & LibraryThing

Amazing there over 112 million blogs tracked by Technorati. I did a search with bookmobile and was succesful in getting 715 searches. With nswpln2008 I had 6 entries tagged under posts and heaps found under photos. Not sure whether I'm doing this exercise the way it's meant to be done.

LibraryThing was more of a 'my type' thing and found this to be a wonderful tool to share your personal best books. Cataloguing your own books was a plus point, discovering others with your taste in reading and commenting on books can also promote not so familiar titles. Knowing what others think about a book, a critical review of a book or just a review/summary of a book can be shared globally. We have book clubs in our libraries and LibraryThing can be a smimlar on-line book club, but of course, it all done via the web.

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