It's hard to convince teachers to use things that they cannot access at school, so I've been checking the links for this course to see whether Websense will let them through. Everything worked until I got to this assignment. I can't get to Blogline or Feedster at school or home; Syndic8 gets hung-up and won't let me out of it regardless of where I try it. Websense blocks some content on most of them. Technorati seems to be the most straight-forward and easiest to use.
I tried searching "Lyman High" and found a touching Father's Day blog by a former student. My next experiment may be looking for alumni/reunion blogs. We have a big stack of yearbooks from other schools that our journalism program got as samples. I'd like to find good homes for them.
Sorry about the frustration.
ReplyDeleteI found an article stating, Blog search engine Feedster had the following notice "Feedster is changing" on its frontpage. There is no sign of life on the site and the Feedster blog has already been killed off (the big 404 in the sky).
In terms of the blog search market in general, Feedster was falling behind Technorati even then. Now Feedster seems to be, if not in the DeadPool, then at least in the PurgatoryPool.
Nowadays, the blog search market seems to be made up of 3 main players - Google Blog Search, Technorati and Bloglines/Ask.com - and a lot of smaller players such as Zuula and Blogdigger.