Pick a mashup… any mashup
I browsed through the mashups of the day award winners & found a neat one called ‘Twistori’
“A social experiment inspired by We Feel Fine that aggregates updates from Twitter containing specific keywords: I love, I hate, I think, I believe, I …”
Reminds me a bit of some of the applications they have on Digg to monitor news stories, except this monitors Twitter, a microblogging application (posts limited to 150 characters or so). It’s fun to see what people are thinking. (“I believe in Mr. Grieves. But I refuse to believe in C++, CSS, or any of your tomfoolery, shenanigans, and bamboozlery”, “I believe that was my first and will be my only time to check out a book from a ut library. Weird.” “Off to take Rhianna to the hospital for her op… she’s fine about it but
I wish I hadn’t read up about it on wikipedia ;o)” and so on)
twistori is neat but it’s more of a time waster than something useful in terms of library work. With the Digg mashup you at least see what links & news pieces are popular online at the moment.
Head over to Rollyo
I did a couple of searches in Gabe’s libraryblogs searchroll on Rollyo. First I tried Ovid…1st page mostly Krafty librarian’s stuff, w/ David Rothman coming in on the second page. Then I tried PubMed. Interestingly, it was all Rothman this time. Finally I tried “stupid”. Though annoyed librarian turned up the most, there was a varied selection of blogs in those search results.
I’ve played with Rollyo before but honestly, I prefer to just use google & throw in some fancy hacks to narrow my results. but that’s just me. Plus i could just search my bloglines page anyway.
