Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati continues..

#14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati
After playing with Technorati for some time, I believe I have a fuller understanding of what this tool can do; thus its usefulness in locating a myriad of information and opinions in the blogosphere.

The Technorati discovery exercises were an interesting way to explore this tool. Keyword searching blog posts for Learning 2.0, versus post tags and Blog topics on this subject, demonstrated the difference between result outcomes, providing evidence of the specific searching capability of this tool.

The Popular Blogs feature clearly shows the social networking element of Technorati in that members are linking blogs to their favourites, thereby providing measurable interest. Plus searching specific URLs enables you to link into other members' favourites and tags (like del.icio.us). Top Searches I find a little ordinary, but then gossip on Britney Spears seemed to be the order of the day while I was playing with this tool.

Having become a Technorati member and previously claimed my learning blog, the screen display when I sign-in is more personalised listing my favourites and my blog, a feature I quite like. After adding a few tags to my blog posts I pinged Technorati to ensure these updates were picked up. I've also ensured that pinging is enabled under Settings in Blogger so future post tagging is linked back to Technorati. The reason for doing this? To get my blog, posts and ultimately my learning 2.0 feedback out there... into the blogosphere!

Technorati tags tagging blogs search engine

Week 5: Play Week - Roll your own search engine with Rollyo

#12 Roll your own search engine with Rollyo
Another terrific web tool, hence another productive activity. I stumbled across a Rollyo search engine yesterday while looking for image generators, so felt a little familiar with the concept.

I decided to create a Rollyo search engine on a topic I often search for, movie news & reviews.

Technorati tag Rollyo search engine