Week 6, Thing 14: Discover Technorati and Learn How Tags Work With Blogs

Technorati appears to be an attractive portal and search engine for blogs.

Not too long ago, I composed a presentation with a co-worker about blogging, and I used the blog directories on Google as my main resource. Technorati is far better than Google at presenting the blogosphere!

I suppose that tagging is to blogs as metadata is to web pages. If everybody did it consistently, the web might be better organized and easier to navigate. I'm suspicious of the Technorati popularity and rating system ("members" making blogs a "favorite"); my sense is that it's open to exploitation by bloggers who wish to draw traffic and make money from advertisements.

Although the settings for this blog tend toward privacy, this post is associated with the "mdlearn2" Technorati tag:
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