Library Thing

I've been using Library Thing for quite some time and am constantly impressed by how efficient and easy it is to use. With the use of tags added by Library Thing members who have actually read the books, it is easy to search for and find books relevant to the specific topics you are interested in. When viewing the information page for a certain book, such as The Book Whisperer in the included link, I am able to determine what the book is about. The tag cloud, group of tags added to describe the book, shows what words the users have chosen and how many users chose those descriptors. The larger the font size of the tag, the more the tag was chosen. By looking at the tag cloud for The Book Whisperer, I am able to see that the top tags associated with the book are educationl, literacy, professional development/reading, and reading instruction. Having read the book, I believe that those tags would be appropriate for the book, but I feel as if classroom or children's books/literature could tagged more and, therefore, larger in font size in the tag cloud.


http://www.librarything.com/work/8040673

Feed Readers

There are many advantages of using feed readers. In my opinion the main advantage is having all of the subscriptions I am interested in in one place. This saves so much time that would have been spent jumping around from one blog site to another searching for relevant content. Another advantage is being able to 'star' favorite articles and posts. It's quick and easy to find your starred content in a feed reader, whereas in the past I had to save everything I wanted to access later in bookmarks in my browser.

The only disadvantages I see in the use of feed readers is that 1) it's very easy for me to spend WAY too much time browsing through all of the new content and 2) it's still a bit tricky for me to get used to using feed readers, but I'm sure that will pass in time as I become more used to the technology.

Formatting Blog Posts

Today I am trying out some of the fancy formatting options in Blogger.



I can add hyperlinks, images, and videos to display on my blog.  I can also edit posts in my blog.