thing 10

I searched for 'copyright australia' (midway through was wishing I had chosen something like 'chocolate hedgehog', but never mind - it's there for another day).

del.icio.us came up with 562 hits: one thing that had already struck me about their layout is that it would be very useful if there was a visible date - if you aren't familiar with your topic you could spend a lot of time looking at 4 year old newspaper articles (not necessarily a bad thing, but irritating if you're looking for current information) - I do like the way the 'social' aspect can take you to other directly or laterally relevant sites.

Connotea came up with one item - which wasn't actually about copyright or australia anyway - and their 828 hits for 'copyright' alone mixed in IP, trademarks, etc etc and were all (well the ones I looked at) from/about the USA. I liked the layout though.

Citeulink didn't have anything for 'copyright australia', and I didn't bother to tweak my search term.

Google offered 19,400,000 hits (334,000 when I chose Australian sites only) - it was interesting that a number of government departments: the AG's dept, the ACC, and CAL and other useful sites were top of the lists - I wonder how they managed that? $$$? However after those, the hits were mostly to copyright and disclaimer statements on websites - not so useful.

Dogpile gave me 36 sites - the AG's, CAL, and the ACC; but then more copyright and disclaimer statements.

Zuula had 'about' 497,000,000 hits via google, 503,000,000 from yahoo etc - it's good to be able to switch, but again there was a strong US focus and included trademarks, patents, etc.

Kartoo had 476,000,000 hits but only displayed half a dozen or so at a time on its map - very focussed though - it would probably take me a while to get used to visual prompts rather than words - but I was quite taken with it, and liked their adjacent topic list.

The social searches are interesting because they can lead to other connections that might be shared by co-posters - and I do like working out both my own folksonomies as well as other people's.

yet more social sites

browsing the Australian online over lunch and noticed at the end of each article the reader is offered a choice of 'Social Web links' to 15 social bookmarking sites (by icon) - I couldn't copy the image but this is a link http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22652330-11949,00.html

tag clouds

this is the tagroll from my del.icio.us, I've been doing some tag-bundling as well because I imported all my favourites from my work computer

week what?

Just checked the rss feeds in googlereader for the first time in a week.

Although I had almost immediately deleted most of the subscriptions that I created in last week's tasks, there still seemed to be an awful lot of headlines to wade through; so many that I'm not sure how useful the feeds will be for me.

However, I did notice this item - "How to: Put your feeds on a diet" by Fiona Bradley http://librariesinteract.info/2007/10/02/putting-your-feeds-on-a-diet/

I'm not very happy with the way that link appears, although it does work, which is something, so there's a 'thing' to fiddle around with for a while - maybe it has something to do with 'enclosure links' which has mysteriously appeared as an option in the edit site for my blog - off to discover more ...