Technorati

Technorati is a search tool for blogs. A search for the term "library 2.0" done today returned the following results: Blogs tagged as - 186 posts Blogs about - 487 All blogs - 487 Technorati has updated it's website since 23 Things was originally created (in fact the site has been changed since the start of the week as it had a tab titled 'popular' which isn't there today). When I looked at the popular blogs/posts tab a few days ago it contained, unsurprisingly, in the top 10 blogs: various celebrities, the environment and current news stories. You could also access the Top 100 blogs as voted by fans and what the top searches in the last 48 hours were for news, the internet movie database (Amazon), music, Youtube videos, DVDs (Amazon), and books (Amazon). Now that the popular tab is no longer available there is instead tabs titled: business, entertainment, lifestyle, politics, sports and technology. These tabs then contain sub categories, such as under entertainment,: celebrity, film, gaming, indie film, music and tv. Each subject tab then has 2 viewing options of either headlines, or rising posts/stories. Rising posts and stories show the blog posts and mainstream media stories getting the greatest attention from other bloggers in a topical area at that time. There is an option on this tab to view blogs and news together to to separate them out. You can also opt to view them as ordered by freshness or attention (this is calculated as a weighted rank based on time, number of links, rate of new links, Technorati Authority, and the Technorati Authority of linking blogs. It can change over time). Headlines are also given an authority rating. Authority refers to the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has. I signed up to Technorati and this blog has now been claimed so that Technorati will definitely spider it. I didn't attempt to insert the html code necessary for tagging as when I tried to insert coding to add a technorati widget to this blog's sidebar it wouldn't work so I didn't want to go thru that fuss again. Technorati is certainly a tool worthwhile using for anyone interested in finding blogs or posts on topics of interest to themselves.