Thing #11: Technorati

Maybe it's the season sneaking up on me, but for some reason I have the urge to sing the word "Technorati" to the tune of the Hallelujah chorus:

TECH-no-rati!
TECH-no-rati!
Technorati! Technorati!
Tech-NO-ra-TI!

No? Okay, maybe not.

So, as suggested, I checked out Technorati and learned more about how tags work. As I've mentioned before, I'm a terrible and pathetic tagger, and really have mixed feelings about tagging as a useful tool on a large scale; the universe of natural language is just too big and varied.

But I had fun looking at Technorati's tag clouds, and checking out what's popular and rising these days. Seems to me that Technorati would be an extremely useful tool for writers or pundits who want to keep their finger on the pulse of what's being talked about, and it is helpful if you want to see who's linked to your blog or website lately (I did a few vanity searches and found that some surprising people have linked to a couple of things I've written, so that was neat).

As suggested, I did try searching on "Learning 2.0", and found 7,007 posts that mentioned the term, but only 531 with the "Learning 2.0" tag. Which suggests that many other people are just as lazy about tagging as I am. Good to know!