Thing 2

Woah! Too many blogs, too little time! After solving, via a roundabout route, the issues referred to in earlier posts, I've now started to make my way through some blogs, trying to decide which of them I'd like to read more of.

There are now over 700 people taking part in cpd23. There's no way I'm going to be able to read everyone's so a search strategy was required. By "search", I mean "filter", by "strategy", I mean "use delicious tags to only show a certain number of blogs". Very scientific.

Anyway, I managed to get the big list down to a slightly more manageable list of 176 UK HE library people. Lots of people here similar to me, some familiar names.

I'm following a selection of blogs now, chosen for the following reasons:

• I like their writing style




• They are familiar to me in some way (I follow on Twitter, have worked with them)




• They are from, or work in, my locality




• They relate their blog thoughts to more than one subject (using cross-referencing/analogies/metaphor/their own interests)




• Their lives sound more interesting than my own!

I deliberately excluded blogs which had no posts, or only a few, which looked as if the author had given up early. I may be completely wrong: I myself have been very lax on the blogging front recently (can I blame being on holiday for this?).

So all I have to do now is read properly the blogs I have subscribed to, and write something about them!

Perhaps I'll leave that to tomorrow...