For research purposes, personal stories are the best. And, what better place to find personal stories than on blogs. I’ve been monitoring a few personal blogs (Mr. Clio’s, NOLA Metblog) and some newsey blogs (Business of Film on NOLA.com). Of particular interest is a superb little news amalgamate called Topix. You can type in key words like “Chalmette” and it searches for all the news articles about your topic. I’m following over 20 blogs, so it was doin’ my head in. So, for all who love blogs but haven’t found Google Reader yet, check it out. It checks all your blogs for you and puts the posts in one place that you can access online no matter where you are. This has been a major time saver for me.
