Thing 9: Librarian and library-related blogs.

Here are some of my favorite librarian and library-related blogs:

http://www.librarian.net/: Jessamyn West.
http://www.walkingpaper.org/: Aaron Schmidt.
http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/: The Dewey Blog.
http://michaelgolrick.blogspot.com/index.html: Michael Golrick.
http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/: Karen A. Coombs.

I dutifully tried out all of these RSS search engine tools. With Feedster you can save searches and subscribe to them with your RSS reader. I like Feedster's simple interface and clean results page. Topix reminds me of a news portal, and for searching larger news outfits, I think this search engine may be useful. Syndic8 is the most open about its processes and policies, and its results are usually very relevant when I've used it. I like Technorati, too, particularly its tag cloud for popular tags, and the advanced search interface, which is the easiest to understand.

There are a lot more different RSS search engines; I found this list at http://allrss.com/rsssearch.html.