When playing around with the other tools other than google to search for new blogs using the RSS reader, I found myself constantly going back to google reader everytime. I just really think google reader is the easiest and most efficient for searching for the topics that i am interested in. While playing with technorati, i found it to be pretty easy to use. The only think that makes it less appealing to google reader is that in your search you have to be a lot more specific or you will get pages and pages of blogs that sometimes were not even what you were intending to search for. With topix, the first thing I did not like was that you had to create a login in before you could even began your search. After creating the login i was kind of disappointed. Topix is more of a new media search tool, not really for looking up peoples personalized web blogs. Also Topix uses key words or phrases only in the search tool, so you have to really narrow down what you are intending to search to get any kind of results, which for me was not very many.
I found many interesting blogs while doing the search however. Of course I subcribed to the cool cat teacher blog. I also found http://educationcloset.com/, which is a great blog I found using technorati, where the author shares personal experiences of her life as an elementary school teacher, mother, and professional photographer, which I found very interesting to me because I to am a mother, will be teaching elementary education and love to take picutres! It is amazing the stuff you can find using these tools.
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