1. Take a look at Technorati and try doing a keyword search for “School Library Learning 2.0” in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory. Are the results different? I found that the search results were similar in blog posts, tags and in the blog directory. In all three cases some of the student blog for this course came up.
2. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Is anything interesting or surprising in your results? I was surprised to see "janet jackson" and "animal testing" in the top 10 searches. Some of the most popular blogs are related to technology. This is not a surprise. There is very useful technolgy information available on blogger sites that may be more helpful than calling customer service when you have a technology problem.
3. Create a blog post for Thing #14 and express your thoughts regarding how Technorati and its features could assist you. Since you have now looked at several tools that use tagging (Technorati, de.licio.us, & Flickr), add your thoughts about the value of tagging information.
Technorati is an excellent searching website for avarage people like us to locate blog sites that we can use to share news, information and lessons. Technorati opens up the world of blogging so that we can all share news and information with each other, rather than relying only on traditional news media for news and information. Tagging information with relevant key words is an great way to find useful information, especially on del.icio.us.
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