1. Are the Technorati results different in Blog posts, in tags, and in the Blog Directory? Today, July 15 at 4:30, there were 1183 posts for School Library Learning 2.0. These were posts with "any authority". There were 249 with some authority, and 32 with a lot of authority. There were 73 blogs, 12 photos and 18 videos. If the photos and videos are any indication, there is a lot of unrelated material with these tags. For instance, the videos on this topic include how to apply car tinting, extreme survival for military, and Olivia learning French. Being able to winnow the posts by authority will hopefully overcome this seemingly random tagging.
2. Anything interesting or surprising in popular blog, searches and tags? In the directory, topics are limited and somewhat arbitrary. You can find advertising and liberal politics, but not education. Clicking popular books revealed that Amazon was having "a temporary problem with that information". There was also a glitch when clicking on popular tags. Searching the top 100 blogs led to some interesting information. I watched The Angry Chef make unhealthy bran muffins in his tiny kitchen, for example.
3. Value of tagging info and thoughts on how Technorati and its features can help me and my students. The more I delve into blogging and tagging, the more I realize how much is out there and how one could live on the computer all day. Now we can keep up not only with what our friends think and wonder, but also folks from around the world. And we should? I can see the benefit of sampling "the unwashed masses", as the Technorati product developer calls them after an event like Obama's election, Michael Jackson's death, or the launch of the latest Space Shuttle. Tantek Celik of Technorati thinks there is much to be gained from, "the human experience raw and uncut" with no filters. Another at Technorati said that "good stuff will bubble up from the bottom".
A good example of the impact of this phenomenom is a music video made by a musician whose guitar was broken by United. After a year of chasing down numerous individuals at United, Dave Carroll posted the first of 3 videos he promised United he would make to publicize the destruction of his $3500 Taylor guitar. In 10 days, there were 3.2 million views and 14,000 comments. This will definitely impact United's policy in the future.
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