Life at the Home20

Relunctantly, I have been familiarizing myself with Yahoo of late.  I signed up for a free online class that uses Yahoo to communicate with its students.  In the process, I saw a blurb about Yahoo Buzz, yet another social bookmarking site to rival Digg.com.  Not that I have found anything especially alluring about Digg but here again is another way to promote one’s blog.

Since it’s new (opened to the public as of today), I went ahead and browsed about the first 10 pages of what some people consider to be interesting blog posts.  I didn’t “buzz” anything up (as opposed to “digg it”) but I have to admit I read a few.  I checked back a hour later and it doesn’t look like anyone else buzzed anything either.  Yahoo Buzz seems to be a bit more celebrity driven while I hear that Digg is technology news driven.

If you search for “genealogy” at Digg, you get four responses.  Geni.com is the only one I found relevant and with 1428 diggs I wonder why it isn’t on page 1?  I guess I don’t get it.  Someone please enlighten me.

Now do a buzz search for “genealogy”.  You get 3 responses, including an article about Randy Newman’s musical genealogy, some genealogy t-shirts for sale and one genealogical society meeting in Lufkin, Texas which was picked up from the local newspaper.

Continuing on down the pages of Buzz, I found an interesting blog post about Blogs.com.  Wouldn’t you know, now I can’t find it.  So just go straight to Blogs.com, the Best in Blogs.  So who wants to be the first to submit their list of 10 Favorite Genealogical Blogs?

Edit:  According to Tech Crunch, you have to “be somebody” to get a Top 10 list.  I still “submitted” my site.  Who knows?

Tags: Computers & Genealogy //