Standing searches. I'll be in the computer lab with students tomorrow introducing standing searches on Bloglines and Google News, and I'll be asking them to use these tools in their blogging and research in the weeks ahead. It seems to me that standing searches, whether these or others, must be part of the essential toolkit these days. Our library's online data bases offer standing searches, too, but they haven't been (to me) very user-friendly yet and I can't assign them until they I can get them to work properly for me. [5 & P]