I blogged a bit about Technorati in a previous post about finding feeds so I actually groaned a little bit when I saw that this was the subject of another exercise. I think maybe I've been working on Learning 2.0 for too long this morning because I am definitely grumpy that I had to spend more time exploring Technorati. I thought it was OK the first time...my opinion hasn't really changed much.
I did do a search for "Learning 2.0" and compared the results of the keyword search vs. the blog search vs. the Blog Directory. I really didn't like the keyword search results - you just get way too much stuff not related to your topic of interest. I much preferred the blog search, where you get a little blurb summarizing the purpose, topic, focus, or angle of the blog. The Blog Directory was OK but I still like the blog level search best. For example, when I drilled down in the Blog Directory to Lifestyle and then to Literature, I thought I would get blogs related to , well...books. This didn't appear to be the case. Instead I got blogs like RawMeat.com - The Cure for Boredom. I can't say much about RawMeat.com's claim to cure boredom...but I can say this shouldn't be the tag line for Technorati!
