Technorati

I was a bit apprehensive about visiting Technorati … it sounded like a sect of elitist geeks … however, when I got there, it wasn’t too scary. Had a look at most things on the navigational bar and then searched as directed for Learning 2.0. It was interesting to see that it scored only 539 hits in Tag search compared with 6,721 hits in Blog Posts. Next had a look at ‘What’s Popular’. Wasn’t sure why Boing Boing came first in the Top 100 blogs by fans but only fifth in the Top 100 blogs by authority so clicked on Help for some more information. Might have to come back to this another time as it was a bit technical to take in at this time of night but it seems to have something to do with the number of links in the last 180 days.

Under ‘Site Guide’ I did find some really good explanations of blogs and blogging terms in plain English which I will probably use to explain to my elderly parents who can’t seem to grasp what the www is all about.