Thursday, August 2, 2007

week 6, thing 14 ~ Technorati

I searched Technorati for blog posts containg "Learning 2.0" and the vast majority of the results I received were from library blogs - participants in the 23 Things program.

When I searched for blog posts tagged "Learning 2.0" the results were nearly identical, although they included videos and photos as well as blogs.

A search for "Learning 2.0" in the Blog Directory, however, returns a completely different set of results because these are entire blogs dedicated to the topic, not just individual posts.

Boing Boing and Techcrunch currently appear in both the 5 most favorited blogs and in the 5 top blogs on Technorati. These consistently appear in the top 5s and then there are other blogs that change depending on current events.

Technorati taught me that Boing Boing is a superpopular blog and perhaps I should take the time to figure out why. A lot of the other popular and most favorited blogs appear to be for gadget lovers and "techies."