Blummy? One to look at later

Weblogg-ed - The Read/Write Web in the Classroom :

If you want a nifty little tool for teaching basic information literacy in these days of the Read/Write Web, go to Blummy, create a bookmarklet with the links outlined below, and put it on every computer in your school. Why? Because not only can you replicate much of Alan’s multi-post bookmarklet (which I’m still keeping, btw,) but you can also add links that will (using my homepage as an example):

# automatically look up who owns any website you’re on (pick the “Whois” bookmarklet.)
# show who is linked to a particlular site (pick the “who’s linking” bookmarklet with the Google logo.)
# and shows (literally) the page that every link on the site, well, links to, creating a page of active mini-browser windows. (Pick the “linked sites” bookmarklet) This takes a while, but it’s worth the wait, and you can even set the size of the screenshot that comes up. Amazing.

As Alan November likes to point out, those are three basic pieces of information that every teacher and student needs to begin to evaluate the authority and accuracy of a particular site.

Possibly related:

• A Guide to Using RSS, Which Helps You Scan Vast Array of Web Sites
• ‘Click to enter this site’
• Teoma: search engine