Internet Resources for the Information Professional - Jeremy Hunsinger's Homepage

This looks to be a very good course with most of the course material online and links included. Expected that it will take fifteen weeks to complete.

Internet Resources for the Information Professional - Jeremy Hunsinger's Homepage: "The course will focus on Social Software for Information Professionals, Library 2.0 applications, and the transformation of information professionals that occurs with informationalization. We will be dealing significantly with blogs, wiki's, social searching, social bookmarking, and related information systems that address information users as social, political, communal."

Hopefully blogging this will make it easier to find and get back to than just one more bookmark in the swarm.

I have been reading about Google's Custom Search Engine. This evening added one to this blog. Right now the only URL that it searches is WinnowingCyberspace. I will add more URLs. I also added Google Marker to my browser toolbar. With Google Marker I can add the current site in the window to the custom engine.

I have been thinking about Custom search engines for three months or so. Every time I use Google's full search engine and get a bunch of irrelevant off topic stuff I think how nice a more focused engine would be. Currently my answer to the problem is to look for a pattern of irrelevancy and use minus with keywords to start to weed out unwanted returns.

A real weakness of a Custom Search Engine is that with a small number of URLs to search there is less chance of the serendipitous find.