I can hardly wait for opening day! Last year was the first year without my beloved Boonie on the team so I didn't start the year with a belief that the Mariners were going to do much that season. I eventually made Richie Sexson my new 'main man' and can hardly wait for this season to begin! Luckily, FSN has started broadcasting some of the Cactus League games. It's still a dream of mine to be a snowbird one day and spend at least a week in Phoenix to catch some spring training games. :-)
I haven't formed a real opinion yet about Technorati. On the surface, I think it could be useful if one thinks blogposts are useful sources of information in general. I need to experiment more with it by doing some searches that could be relevant for me to see if I'd ever really use the site.
I signed up on LibraryThing and added 5 of my favorite books to 'my library' http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=bassetbudi
I found the blog post that compares tagging on LibraryThing vs. Amazon pretty interesting, though: http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/02/when-tags-works-and-when-they-dont.php I've never understood some folks loathing of Amazon since I've always found exactly what I needed there and plenty of other options with very simple searches. As the blogposting above points out, Amazon is a business and wants to sell thing; while they offer customers an opportunity to provide tags for products few customers have opted to do so. On the other hand, LibraryThing has tons of tagged entries making it much more useful for potentially coming up with more items on a tagged search. It must be noted that customers on Amazon don't really have any incentive to add tags because it is perceived as not directly benefitting them...but another customer...so why do "work" for Amazon for free?
GO MARINERS!!!
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