#9 So much feeding I'm feeling a bit bloated

I thought I kind of already did this in Thing #8, but apparently not. Even though at this point I am looking for less to occupy my work time, not more, I decided I would check out these whole feed search tool thingies. You never know, they might come in handy someday.

The problem I had with all of them is that I didn't really know what to search for. If you thought googling for "librarians" or suchlike brought up a depressing number of irrelevant results, don't try searching Feedster or Technorati for it. On the other hand, I did like Technorati's interface and actually did find another interesting library blog when I clicked on the "blog" tab (to look for blogs about or by librarians instead of as a keyword in any blog post anywhere). Like the catalogue, it's simply a matter of having an idea of what you want to find and searching accordingly. Which takes me back to my original point—because I didn't really have a clear goal, it was a bit hard to feel like I was getting anywhere.

I think I liked Technorati the best, although the Google blog search wasn't bad either, and had less of the eyeball-scalding colours (though Feedster certainly comes top in that particular department...my colour-blind brother would love all that lime green; me, not so much).

Anyway, I also think that this whole 2.0 thing is showing an alarming tendency to eat my life. At least I'm not as bad as the people who, not content with spending their RL (Real Life) telling people where the X is and answering the odd reference query, have started up a SL (Second Life) doing the same thing. They're even keeping statistics, having debates about collection development, etc. I find this unutterably sad—and I am not a technophobe and do enjoy playing computer games. It's all about keeping a sense of proportion.