Technorati

It was easy to get lost as you move deeper and deeper into Technorati. I hit a lot of errors while searching “entertainment”. Technorati has a humorous error page.

I was surprised that I could access a portion of PBCLS Web 2.0 Exploration Project – Participants without a password.

There were too many blogs linked to www.pbclibrary.org to read them all, but I read quite a few. The e-government research blog was helpful, and the Panda blog was cute.

At first I felt that searching by tag was difficult. I wasn’t finding what I was looking for because other people used different meanings for the tags I was searching. Once I got the hang of it, I enjoyed it. I discovered you don’t have to limit your search to one word. By searching “Orson Scott Card” I found some great blogs and videos about the author.

There are over 35,000 posts tagged Web 2.0. Related tags are tags that other people might use to describe the same thing such as “web 2.0” and web-20”, or subsets of the original tag, such as “web 2.0” and “blogging” or “social networking”. I was surprised to discover that most of the links to “web 2.0” were “social networking”.