Thing #14 Technorati

As I mentioned earlier, I don't think that technorati will be a site that I would personally use too often. I just don't spend that much time on the internet. It was interesting the extreme difference it made in the way that you searched for a topic on the site. By just searching blog posts for "learning 2.0" there were 12,576 hits. The tags only generated 851. The last one, the blog directory, was actually my favorite. It had 836 hits but it also gave a brief description and listed how many other people are subscribed to it. I liked that if I was going to use this site, I could help narrow down my results by choosing a more commonly read blog. Going on the assumption that all those other people wouldn't read it unless it was good...but then we have Mitch Album so we know that not everything is a safe bet ;) I was surprised by the fact that I didn't even recognize half of what the most popular searches were talking about. A couple of the key, common things jumped out at me but I had no clue what most of it was.