Week 7, Thing 10 & 11 - Compare searching on tagged sites with other sites

I entered the search RDA (i.e. Resource description and Access - RDA will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media)
results:

Del.icio.us (887 hits)
Connotea (22 hits – more academic, less noise, lots of duplication)
CitULike (No. of hits not stated -less hits, more academic,more unrelated articles, all journal articles)
Murdoch Uni. Catalogue (no hits)
Google (1,750,000 hits, way more noise, less academic, needs lots of refining the search)
Dogpile (68 hits, lots of noise, needs refining, less academic)
Zuula (7,330,000 hits way to broad a search, as for Google)
Kartoo (Not sure of no. of hits – mapped, easier to get rid of unrelated topics – interesting approach, harder to understand)

Simple observations: Interesting, choice/type of topic should determine which search engine to use for best results.

Ran out of time to do thing 11 - not a good week!

Wk. 4 & 5, Play weeks

I have used these last two weeks to stay on top of my RSS feeds and read some interesting articles. I've added a couple of "job relevant" feeds which I'm finding quite interesting. An interesting article about libraries use of facebook is: http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/facebook-and-rapport/
(that was my attempt to link, I hope it worked) I find I don't have the techno background to know how to do all the things I need, the RSS feed reader is not always intuitive, I'd like to be able to delete somethings after I've looked at them 'cos they always seem to stay in the lists which are getting bigger & bigger

Thing 6 & 7. Learn about RSS, google reader 7 add some feeds

I had already added google reader to my gmail account so used the time to check my RSS feeds (of which I had eleven with a few hundred posts!!) hadn't checked them in months, therein lies the problem. It's just another thing you have to remember to check and allow time for on a regular basis which is also what I'm finding in regards to the the Ref blog. Now as well as checking my Outlook email, I need to check the Refblog, gmail account and google reader, if only I didn't have a real job. The biggest problem for me is getting distracted by so many links on each and every post, blog or page. You can get lost for hours!! I have also added a "subscribe button" to my toolbar which should make it easier to add even more subscriptions.
What I really need now is a tool to manage my Life so I have time for all this!

First Post: 23 Things

Thing 4. Set up a blog using blogger
Setting up a blog following the instructions is very easy, except I probably made a mistake with the "display name" I would like to find out more about the customization tools which I shall look into. Spell check works here fortunately! I shall try putting in a link now: http://authorities.loc.gov/
I shall try editing this after posting.