When I first looked at Technorati in Week #4, I didn't like it, but now that I got to play with it a little more my opinions changed. When I searched School library learning 2.0 in blogs, I picked up some blogs of others doing the school library learning 2.0 course. A tag search basically only picked up words like 2.0.
I explored the popular blog searches and of course Harry Potter came up. Would you believe that i have never read any Harry Potter. I saw the movies. Harry Potter just does not interest me. Maybe because I don't like reading thick books about 300 pages to 4oo is my limit. I like Philip Pullman's His dark Materials trilogy and can't wait till Golden Compass comes out as a movie. I did find the technorati help site to be very informative and explain lots of blog terms to me. Its fun looking at blogs and if I was looking for a specific blog I might used technorati, but blogs don't always have the information that I would need to do research. I did a search on my blog and it came up. It said no authority yet. Wonder what that means.
Problem with tagging is that it's not structured. I find it easier if I want to search for something to find it with a google search. I enjoy blogging but not sure yet if I want to register with techorati and claim it. I also think we need to be careful when having students search as I did get some not so nice sites.
