Getting Technical With Technorati

For Thing #14, I discovered technorati! It is a HUGE network of anything related to blogs & blog posts, including videos, photos and more. I conducted the suggested search for "learning 2.0" in blogs and posts. These 2 searches differ in that you either find blogs dedicated to learning 2.0, or just one single post about learning 2.0 that could be from any type of blog. I did my own search for australian shepherds. I found a blog belonging to an aussie breeder in Texas. There were also tons of pictures and videos of australian shepherds in the technorati search results.
If you have a membership with technorati, you can keep a list of your favorite blogs! I will probably join the site at some point. When I do, I think my first favorite will be engadget, a really neat blog all about technology. It is also ranked #1 in technorati's top 100. Technorati is yet another site I've discovered through 23 Things to spend hours and hours on!

"del.icio.us" is fun to type.

Week #6 - Thing #13: discover del.icio.us & tagging. Tagging is a cool way to organize just about anything. It's simply attaching key search words to a particular piece of content. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site. It allows you to catalog all of your favorite websites and tag them so you and/or other users can find them easily. You can also view how many people have a specific website bookmarked. I searched for the tag "23 things". The PLCMC library's "official learning 2.0" blog came up. 941 del.icio.us users have this site bookmarked. If you click on the number of bookmarks, it takes you to a page that lets you see exactly who else has that site bookmarked, and also, any comments that users have posted about that site. Some comments on this learning 2.0 blog were: "Get your library up to date", and "designed to encourage staff to explore new technologies".
I can see how surfing through del.icio.us could take up a ton of someone's time. Sharing your bookmarks allows others to find some hidden gems in the world wide web! I found a cool google map mashup. Dig to the Other Side. It lets you pick your location on one side of the world, and then shows you where you would end up if you dug a hole to the other side of the world. If I dug a hole in my bedroom to the other side of the earth, I'd end up in the indian ocean off the coast of australia!
I think another way del.icio.us can serve you is by giving you a place to access your bookmarks from any computer. It would also be a useful research tool to use, while searching in del.icio.us for sites with specific tags, you can see what other sites were tagged similarly that may not have shown up in a plain google search.