Thing Three

Since I just returned from watching the inauguration in HD on an awesome plasma screen TV owned by the Library, I decided to do blog searches on the Obama Inauguration. My first step was actually figuring out how to spell inauguration - I had an extra "a" thrown in there the first go round. As required, I reviewed Technorati and then picked out Ice Rocket as my second search tool because, let's face it, it has a very cool name. And as we know, image is everything :)

Personally, I can't see myself following blogs on a regular basis. The majority of them out there -- this one included -- are written by any Joe Blow sitting in front of his computer. I'm not really into listening to the random opinions of people I don't know. It reminds me of the TV commercials for recently released movies that, thank goodness, have stopped running. You see trailers about the movie and then all these people coming out of it were interviewed about how they liked it. Who cares? I don't know you. I want to hear from friends, coworkers, family, experts, not just the random guy who decided to post on his blog or come out of a movie theater.

Back to the comparison of search engines -- I thought Technorati looked and acted more professional. It probably appealed to my sense of wanting to hear from someone who knows what they're talking about. Its options seemed more numerous than Ice Rocket. I didn't get as many hits on the inauguration as Ice Rocket, but I think 22, 801 is still plenty. And I'm sure the number will multiply as the day progresses. When I searched the photos link, the ones on Ice Rocket were applicable, but not so on Technorati. What does a picture of Christie Brinkley have to do with the inauguration? I admit I didn't spend lots and lots of time on this exercise because I couldn't really get into it. But interesting to know blogs are searchable.