More Resources
List of Social Networking Sites at Wikipedia
Technorati Searchable Catalog of blogs
Deep Blog guide and portal to quality blogs for newcomers
Using the Internet Articles on Tech Soup, including:
Weblogs [pdf] Chapter excerpt from Keeping Current: Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian and Patron Needs, by Steven M. Cohen
Directories:
Go2Web20.net A colorful display of logos of web2 services. Use the purple tabs on the lower and upper left to scroll down and up, or select a tag or sort. There's really a lot here! Thank-you to Peter for finding this.
More information about RSS, Feeds and Newsreaders
Libarian's Internet Index RSS Tutorial
http://lii.org/pub/htdocs/understandingrss.htm
Chris Harris's Tutorial on RSS plus lots and lots of other cool stuff for school and other librarians
http://schoolof.info/infomancy/?page_id=88
RSS for Non-Techie Librarians
http://staff.philau.edu/BellS/rss.htm
Rob Teeter's page with a wealth of information on RSS
http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/rss.html
Making an RSS Feed step by step
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175271
More on MySpace and Social Networking from www.lii.org:
The MySpace Generation
December 2005 cover story from Business Week magazine
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_50/b3963001.htm
How MySpace Works
Describes what it "really is, what it can do for you, [and] how it blew past the competition." Also addresses safety issues. From How Stuff Works.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/myspace.htm
MySpace, Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites: Hot Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Text and audio of a May 2006 article From the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1463
Internet Evolution: Riding the Waves of "Web 2.0"
October 2006 report from the Pew Internet & American Life project.