Technorati and a rambling rant on new stuff

Ok, so why do I want to do this technorati thing??? Technorati, I signed up for it and trying to claim my blog it just goes off and says "Technorati is borked" and it will return, yadda, yadda, yadda and it no return.

WTF sounds interesting. I will have to figure out why it can't find my blog.

I have done the del.icio.us thing too but don't see the utility of that nor do I get Rollyo.

I've been getting Wired Magazine for years and IM with my son in Iraq. My kids all have Myspace accounts but all this stuff is like a revelation to me. However, I don't see the need for it. Trying to integrate it all together is confusing too. Some sites are really good at explaining the benefits but others don't explain too much at all. It's almost like if they have to explain it, maybe you don't belong there.

I think all these tools are nice but we all have work to do and these tools can be diverting us from what needs to be done in the library serving the community. Information overload is a real and present danger here. So I'm enjoying my tour through this Web 2.0 and learning a lot but still wondering why do I want to do this and why does this certain application benefit me? It's really nice to be freed from the restraints of code and style sheets and all that technical geek detail so that's a real improvement.