Continuation of Week Six, Assignment #14

#14 Continued

I just finished checking Technorati for popular posts, and I don't care for what I'm seeing. Boing Boing was listed as the most popular blog at the time I looked, and it had a posting about Cephaloerotica (erotica combined with the octopus). Is this supposed to interest me? I have better things to do with my time than to read this type of posting.

These are the 100 most popular tags today:
Apple Art Art and Photography BISNIS Blog Blogging Blogroll Blogs books Business Celebrities Christmas Culture Current Affairs Design Diary dreams and the supernatural Education Entertainment Environment events Family fashion Film Food Football Friends Fun Funny Games goals, plans, hopes Google hobbies Home Humor Internet iPhone Iraq jobs, work, careers Life Links Linux Love Marketing Media Microsoft Mobile MobLog Movie Movies movies, tv, celebrities mp3 Music Myspace News News and politics parties and nightlife PC People Personal photo Photography Photos Pictures Podcast Poetry Politics Quiz random Religion Religion and Philosophy Reviews Romance and Relationships School school, college, greek Science Shopping software Sport Sports Survey Tech technology Television thoughts TOPICS Travel travel and places TV Video Videos Web web 2.0 Weblog Windows wordpress Work Writing Writing and poetry youtube

I can't say that there's a single topic there that I'd care to spend time reading about. The only time I ever read a blog, it's school librarian related or tango related. (Ah, now you know my secret passion!)

I claimed my blog in Technorati. Here's my button:

Here's the button so you can add this blog to your Technorati favorites:

At the end of the process of claiming my blog, I see the note, "You have no authority yet." It's really not something I care enough about to pursue.

Week Six, Assignment #14

#14: Explore and learn how tags work with blog posts. Do a keyword search on “School Library Learning 2.0” in blog posts, tags, & the blog directory.

I found 5 hits on “School Library Learning 2.0” in Technorati when I searched blog posts. There were 7 hits on “School Library Learning 2.0” when I searched blogs. There were no hits on “School Library Learning 2.0” when I searched the blog directory. In the advanced search, I found no posts tagged with "School Library Learning 2.0". When I removed the quotation marks and searched again for posts tagged with those words, I found 4. Without the quotation marks, I found 5 blogs that had that exact phrase. (Remember, for comparison, I got 7 blogs about "School Library Learning 2.0" when I included the quotation marks.)

Next: Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Is anything interesting or surprising in your results?

I'll come back and finish this in my next posting.