Friday, December 7, 2007

Testing various blog searches

I actually ended up doing 2 searches.

First I searched for blogs on African Art at universities, or just on the topic. Nothing came up readily that indicated there are any sites devoted specifically to African Art, just individual posts that included mention of African Art. If there are any, they are buried.

So I changed to government documents. That was somewhat more successful but the one blog I know exists did not show so I tried the one for libraries and finally found the one used the most, http://freegovinfo.info/about/cornwall
Danny Cornwall is at the Univ. of Alaska and has guest bloggers who are gov. docs librarians. What I would like to know more about is the algorithms used to bring up blogs.

There did appear to be a few other documents blogs. One of the best was from Oregon and had the best links to other good blogs. So again, judgement and good links helped me more than the blog searches.

Posts of other uci librarians is not readily apparent.

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