#14: Technorati

Today I spent more time looking through Technorati than I ever have before. I did learn some things but found it pretty frustrating, which has been my experience every time I've tried to look through Technorati previously. It doesn't do a good job of telling you what you are looking at so if you are a new user it can be pretty intimidating to try to find your way around and understand what their postings actually are.

For example, one of the assignments was to do a keyword search for Learning 2.0 in the Blog Directory. I went to the Blog Directory page and did a search for that term. I got a different number of results than when I did a search on the main Blogger Central page but it was only a slightly different number. Neither results pages indicated where my results came from - what grouping I was actually searching. I thought this was confusing and sort of irritating.

I was hoping to be able to see a tag cloud of the most popular tags but all I could find was the 10 most popular tags on the main Blogger Central page - way less than I would find useful.

But speaking of useful, now that I've looked through Technorati much more thoroughly than I have ever done before (and I did this mainly because I HAD to for this assignment, because the whole process was pretty irritating), I still don't think this is something I would be likely to use much. I guess I just don't care what some random person thinks about Obama, or Brittney Spears, or Apple.

I will definitly NOT claim my blog, nor tag my posts so more people can find them. Are you kidding? Nobody gives a hoot what I have to say about Learning 2.0. I guess I'm not much of a social networker! :-)