I was surprised "A Hipper Crowd of Shushers," an article in the NY Times about a new stereotype for librarians, was one of the top most visited news stories. Could it be that librarians as a whole are more prone than anyone to check out suggested articles? News of this one has been going the rounds of e-mail today. Maybe librarians do have time after all to read books and eat bon bons all day at work, just add, "and surf the net."
Searching on "Learning 2.0" - yes, the results were different.
When I explored, Top Favorited Blog was Boing Boing, Top Search was Youtube and Top Blog was Engadget. No surprises there, really. It was interesting but not surprising to note the favorited and top blogs overlapped a bit. They were mostly the same ones as the other day when I looked, just the ranking order had changed slightly. "Paris Hilton" is still in the top searches. I liked the array of top tags that explained each blog. Was troubled that many of them are very general or non-specific. I think you still have to be very skilled when searching Technorati to get what you want - need a librarian with sharper skills than mine to cut through the clutter.
Three of the top blogs pertained to technology and gadgetry. I have no doubt reading these extremely current posts is essential to people in these fields.
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