Technorati

Now this is more like it! I just thought of another reason I may not have liked del.icio.us as much as the other things we've played with this semester--I like things to be visually appealing, and del.icio.us was kind of "blah" compared to some of the sites we've seen.

Anyway, I could see how Technorati's blog directory could be extremely useful. The "Life" and "Entertainment" categories were most well-represented (understandably so), while "Autos" and "Science" were in some serious need of help. I found their "Top 100" list to be interesting--I found that I am way out of it because there were very few that I'd even heard of! When I tried a few searches alternating between their "Blogs" and "Posts" options, I got very different results. Who knows if this would continue to be the case if I kept searching for something, but in general I found more useful links searching "Blogs" when I searched a somewhat unique query, while "Posts" returned better results when it was a more common query.

I can see myself using Technorati in the future when I'm trying to find different media sources to use with my English students. I think it's important to show how you can get information on the same topic from a lot of different sources, and blogs are definitely a growing genre!