1. After browsing through the winners of the 'Mashup Awards', I decided to take a look at '50 Matches', a search engine that only searches websites with web 2.0 activity (ex: tagged on del.icio.us or reddit). I was curious to see what the quality of the results would be when searching only sites found useful by other people.
I did a quick search for 'libraries', and got (of course) 50 results. The results were pretty scattered, which stands to reason because without a context, the term 'libraries' could be used in many, many different ways. I refined the search to library 2.0. The results were still pretty scattered. There were a few blog posts that would be useful if I was looking for library 2.0 information, but the rest of the links were to sites with web 2.0 applications. I think the idea for the search engine was good, but it may have ended up limiting the search pool too much to be useful.
2. After that I went over to rollyo.com and searched the librarianblogs engine for privacy. I read a blog post by 'The Annoyed Librarian' which, among other things, discussed posting and commenting in blogs annonymously vs. posting while using your name.
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