Thing #14-Technorati

For the first part of the Technorati exercise I explored different searches for the term "Learning 2.0" in blog posts, blog tags, and a browsing search in the blog directory. All of these search results were different. Using blog posts I have 850 hits but the authority number (yes, there is some authority with blogs going on!) was all over the place and at times quite low. When I searched in blog tags the results narrowed to 87. More precise searching...so long as the users tagged their blogs correctly. Still the authority number seemed rather low. Searching through the blog directory, I had to browse and went from Blog Directory->Technology->Web 2.0. Here the results were very small (7) but they were obviously vetted by Technorati and all had a very high authority number.

Some other interesting browsing:

• Top 100 Blogs (by number of fans): A lot of technology and celeb gossip. Some surprising ones were PostSecret (where people reveal their dark secrets!), a modern librarian cyberpunk (blog titled "Never Give a Cheerleader a Keyboard"), and a blog on Bollywood AND Cricket!

• Top Searches: The usual news, environment, and salacious celeb gossip but also suprising were cheat codes for video games, olympics (thought it would be out of season!) and even some popular searches that are in Spanish!

• Top 100 Blogs: The usual technology and celeb gossip again. (Whoever is this TechCrunch blogger is he or she certainly is popular and has a high authority number!) There was another one called 5 Minutes for Mom with helpful hints for moms and one called Apartment Therapy for decoration ideas...even going so far as to encorporate Edward Cullen's room decor from the Twilight movie!