So far, Technorati is the thing I had the least bit of preconcieved knowlege about. I clicked on the link to the Tech. Tour, and I didn't think it was much of a 'tour'. After reading the page, I googled it to find out more about it. Wikipedia had a good article on it, essentially comparing it to a search engine like Goolge, but that it's searching blogs, versus the entire web. I wonder how much this is used?!?! Do people really care what the top blogs are? I guess it's a way to find interesting blogs... if lots of others are viewers of it, it must be somewhat interesting.
I then went to the Popular and Percolator features. Essentially, it's a quick place to see linke to those most read / hit / downloaded / linked blogs.
I did a keyword search for "Learning 2.0" in Blog Posts and in Tags (never could find out how to search the Blog Directory). I would've guessed that there would've been fewer hits under the tags than in blog posts, becuase posts would've only been tagged "Learning 2.0" if it was a major component of the blog post. There were 1100 or so in the tags; there were 1400 or so that came up in the blog post search. The first couple hits seemed to be the same in each.
I guess this is useful to others... but I have a feeling I'll never be back!!
I tend to look for resources that are qulified and credible, not socially interesting... maybe that's just the nature of a librarian? I guess this might be a good way to see what's going on in a particular field or for a particular topic and then network via the writers behind the blogs..
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