Thing #9

This was really hard!

I liked the article on surrounding yourself with your own circle of the wise. I thought it was good advice and advice I had used before in other circumstances. As I searched the search tools, I found very little. Technorati was the easiest to search, but I still didn't find much. I used search terms like YA literature, school library, school librarian, middle school library and got hits each time, but not what I would consider good hits. It was frustrating to wade through everything! I found that many of the 'hits' listed had their last post 100+, 300+, and even 600+ days ago! That can't be a current blog! Also, sometimes I would click on the hit and the blog would have been deleted. The other search tools weren't much more help. The one that I did like, just a little bit, was the Edublogs' Award Winners page. They had a list of blogs by category and it was a short list. That told me they were good and I just clicked down the list to find blogs that would be relevant to me. I found some that I already had subscribed to on my Reader. This confirmed they were good blogs to subscribe to, but I didn't find anything I thought was worth adding to my Reader.

I learned that you can't just search by YA literature and find something good. I found some blogs that belonged to authors and one that was an online book, but I found some strange ones too! (But the strange ones were too strange to share!)