Week 6- Exercise 14

Getting a chance to look at the most popular blogs was the most interesting part as one blog that I went to called boing boing had an awesome article about the recent release of Soviet propaganda cartoon DVDs expressing what they used to think about America. I know that I would love to see those DVDs to experience a part of long ago history.

I've noticed that tagging programs such as technorati have the same benefits as other search engines like Yahoo when it comes to research assistance because if I were to enter a keyword such as global warming, I would find helpful websites on both yahoo and technorati. However, the two sites are different in that while in yahoo the yahoo staff dictates which websites pop up, in technorati, people just like me determine what will return.

Week 6- Exercise 13

I think this is a good tool for research assistance and just for fun. We can share our interests with someone else who has the same interests.