igoogle-yougoogle-we all google?

The world of igoogle - is it really one that shows our personality traits all on one homepage or one that offers more gadgets to help wile away our time from 'what we should be doing? by offering us distractions of roaming turtles and hampsters ? Who can decide on the importance of the weather vs the horoscope of the day - does it really matter that a southerly is going to blow into Sydney this afternoon if I know that my luck is going to change and the impacts are far greater than whether I've packed an umbrella? and just quietly how come the map that comes up only shows me the layout of San Fransisco not Pearl Beach...ooops because that would be a distraction.
Blogs....the modern day 'dear diary' except that it isn't stored under the bed or at the back of the top drawer behind the socks, away from the prying eyes of mum, brother, sister - it's out there... and your mum is a follower! A form of communication where just about everyone has something important to say on the topic of anything and everything. Social, celebrity, economic and business, education, health and fitness and the list continues. Used in the classroom it can provide a platform for discussion and a forum for new ideas, opinions and feedback on any given topic. Students love posting comments but beware of the number exclamation marks and flashing smiley faces that suddenly appear at the end of a posting!!!!!!!