Rolling my own - Thing #12

Forgive me if you've heard this from the others already, but being able to search my own little subset of the internet is a revelation. I already knew about Google's advanced search (where you can limit your search by domain name) but on Google it's a several-step process. With Rollyo, you can set up a subset of the web and use and reuse as you see fit. This could be useful not just for amateur cooks like me (that's the topic of the search roll I created and link to below) but for children's librarians on a budget, reference librarians with a set of selected free web references sources they want to advertise and make immediately useful for their patrons, the list could go on and on. In fact, i think the "on a budget" aspect is my favorite. All this is free! The drawback, of course, is the mental anguish of having to remember yet another website that knows something about me...

In fact, that's the only thing that's continuing to bother me about these exercises. I used to have a really, really low internet profile. I used to know exactly which websites had an account in my name or with my email address associated with it. (it was easy - some photo websites where my family shares snapshots, my bank, a credit card, that's just about it.) but now, what have I got? blogger... bloglines... librarything... rollyo... doppelme... I'm losing track.

Are more savvy people just not creating these accounts using their real names? Is it better to put in a fake name? Or maybe, is it better to set up a free email account and decide on a username and password that you only use for this kind of online service? I've already decided how to handle these questions, somewhat - but the questions still bug me for some reason.

Of course, it's not like these 23 things include creating a FaceBook or MySpace page (at least, not that I've seen yet!) so I still have a bit of control. :)


here's a search box for my Cooking and Recipes SearchRoll. I just picked a few websites to start this roll, so it's not exactly my favorites or the best of what I usually use... just the easiest URLs to grab at a moment's notice!

Select Search Engine...cooking and recipesSearch The Web

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