It’s always fun to come upon a new research oriented blog that is truly fresh, fun AND provides intelligent insights and valuable information. And it’s been awhile since I stumbled upon something that fit that bill and wasn’t widely known–and that blog is infodoodads

The blog was started just a few months ago by a five female librarians, and they describe their mission here as follows:

infodoodads is a blog that reviews and discusses existing and new tools, services, and technology for finding information on the internet. What kind of information? Any kind. The women behind infodoodads love to learn and find information, and every day new tools are being created and unveiled that help people find, sort, and interact with information.

I already had great fun with two sites the blog just highlighted–one a great people information search tool called Pipl and another was NameVoyager a very cool site that provides “a visual representation of the 1000 most popular US first names back to the 1880s.”

Check these out and more at infodoodads.