What's Technorati? Well with all things Learning 2.0 it was another journey into the unknown for me. Well it's a monitor of weblogs - real time search engine. I suppose del.icio.us is to URLs as is technorati is to blogs, well that's my simplified view.
Again like del.icio.us it allows us to tag blogs and use tags to find blogs, the users have the ultimate power again! So I set upon the task of searching for Learning 2.0 in three different ways - in blog posts 36,622 results all entries included learning and/or 2.0 in the text
blog directory 859 blogs about learning 2.0
and tags 970 posts tagged learning 2.0. Of the three routes I found the tags most useful with more relevant hits. So there you go! Would I use Technorati again? Well it could be alot of fun keeping up with all that's going on out there in blogosphere and maybe I might tag some of my favourite blogs once I get started!
Also another use of tagging blogs I stumbled across was users tagging their blog with the same tag- In China it was used as a form of protest, so if you entered that tag in a search you would get all the relevant info relating to that protest. I suppose this is where specifically tagging a blog becomes a great teaching tool.
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