Blogs at Penn State Landscape

I've complained ad nauseum about the lack of discoverability of Penn State blogs (i.e., those created within the new blogs pilot project). The blogs (and all Penn State personal web pages in general) are not indexed by the Penn State search engine. (I'm not even going to go into why that is happening, because it frustrates me.) They are, however, indexed by plain ol' vanilla Google. (and Google's PSU search, as well.)

Leaving the blogs and personal web pages out of the local search tool makes it hard to discover other active blogs in the pilot project. I'm very interested in seeing what others on campus are doing with their blogs, and I wish there was some sort of browsable directory. Oh well.

This week, Elizabeth Pyatt gave a peek into the land that is the Blogs at Penn State. She identified some examples of different types of blogs involved in the pilot project. (and she listed my blog and Dolores' too!--Thanks, Elizabeth!) :)

Let's hope for more peeks into our local blog landscape, and greater findability (and browsability) in the future.