LibWorm is intended to be a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries. LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his/her favorite aggregator or in LibWorm's built-in aggregator.
Interesting to me, I tried a few searches, and one of them was Ms. Information (my alter-ego) - nothing came up. But there are two Miss Information's out there (which WAS my alter ego from 1996 - 2002 and recently recycled), and one has a Mister Information who also posts to her blog.
Anyway, that's all an aside...
I encourage you all to check out LibWorm. I used it to seek out the first posting of LibWorm, and it appears to be an announcement by one of the creators. Should be a fun thing to keep an eye on, and an excellent resource along with LisZen and Phil Bradley's Google Search.
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Chris Ripple, System Consultant for the Central Kansas Library System, recently posted his Librarianship search engine on PubLib. It can be found at http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=017065933789779522133:wggpofmihzk
Hi Carolyn. :)
Thanks for posting about LibWorm. I wanted to take a moment to offer an explanation of why "Ms. Information" isn;t found with a LibWorm Search.
Remember that Libworm doesn't index web pages, it indexes feeds. It only started indexing on about 11/24/2006, and by that time you alias hadn't been used in a while. Going forward, though, LibWorm should pick up any NEW uses of it. For instance, querying for "Ms. Information" now finds this very post in LibWorm. :)
http://www.libworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=Ms.+Information&s=Search&r=Exact
Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how we can improve LibWorm. :)
Best,
-David Rothman
Co-creator, LibWorm.com
http://davidrothman.net
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