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4Cast #102:<br>
Aggregation, Library of Congress Goes Tech, Online Searching, Blogging
Help<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b>1. Are you aggregated?</b><br>
Several major companies have launched new data portability sites
recently, all
in the hopes that you will use them as your aggregator for all things
social.</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/too_many_choices_too_much_content.php">Too
Many Choices, Too Much Content</a> (ReadWriteWeb)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9941411-80.html">Google brings
Friend Connect to the masses </a>(c|net)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2302398,00.asp">Facebook's
Reach Expands to Web with 'Connect'</a> (PC Magazine)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2301186,00.asp">MySpace
Data-Sharing Plan Learns from Facebook</a> (PC Magazine)</li>
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<p><b>2. What's the Library of Congress up to these days?</b><br>
The LOC is 208 years old today. Even in it's old age, it's tech savvy..</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/05/12/happy-bloggiversary-to-the-library-of-congress/">Happy
Bloggiversary to the Library of Congress</a> (Smart Mobs)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://myloc.gov/Pages/Default.aspx">Library of Congress Home
Page</a> (Check out the video)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200805.pdf">Library
of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter</a> (LOC)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=49094">LC
Works to Make Collections Accessible and Compelling</a> (Information
Today)</li>
</ul>
<p><b>3. There is more to conducting a search than Google</b><br>
The users are changing, the technology is changing, the sources are
changing.</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://www.powerset.com/">Powerset</a>
- <a href="http://zigmasb.profy.com/blog/post/44731652">natural
language search - coming soon</a> (Zigmas Bigelis' Blog)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://tametheweb.com/2008/05/11/how-wikipedia-stacked-up-against-subscription-databases/">How
Wikipedia stacked up against subscription databases</a> (Tame the Web)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/12/new-visual-search-engine-picitup-needs-to-pick-up-its-game/">New
Visual Search Engine Picitup Needs to Pick Up Its Game</a> (Tech Crunch)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2008/8-top-alternative-search-engines/">8
Top Alternative Search Engines</a> (iLibrarian)</li>
</ul>
<p><b>4. Blogs are WORK.</b><br>
It doesn't matter if you are writing or reading blogs, they can be very
time
consuming. Why put forth the effort? Stats really aren't available for
most
blogging software, so we just assume people are reading what we have to
say.
Here are some tips on making the whole process a little more efficient.</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-many-challenges-of-blogging/6767/">The
Many Challenges of Blogging</a> (Search Engine Journal)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://lifehacker.com/387619/top-10-tools-to-get-blogging-done">Top
10 Tools to Get Blogging Done</a> (Lifehacker)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/7-habits-of-incredibly-effective-bloggers/6821/">7
Habits Of Incredibly Effective Bloggers</a> (Search Engine Journal)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-blogging-meets-literary-theory-in-new-analysis.html">Blogging
meets literary analysis: why people read blogs</a> (Ars Technica)</li>
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