Microblogging

In the three+ years since librarians first started thinking about 23 Things and heading out into the wilds of Web 2.0 the biggest new things in a world of new things seem to be Facebook, of course, and Twitter. Twitter, I learned in looking for information about Tumblr, is one of many recently (relatively recently, that is) developed microblogging tools. These are web tools that allow people to broadcast small bits of information rapidly, and to aggregate, as in regular blogging, information and ideas into some kind of thematic order. So, back to Tumblr. New favorites: Officials say the darndest things. Front Pages (from the Newseum). I found these in a posting at Mashable.com. These kinds of things are exactly what keeps news and trivia junkies glued to the screen all day. Librarians like me, who like serendipity and hunting and gathering, are exactly the right audience for these kinds of aggregated information sites: small bites and most of it quite tasty.