Week 6, #14 Technorati, tags

technorati is the "leading search tool and authority for blogs."

discovery exercise:
1. Technorati Keyword Search for "School Library Learning 2.0
a. Blog posts:
wow, 1,322 results for "School library 2.0" All different languages, blogs, photos and videos.
Results: 52 blogs about School Library 2.0
26 results for "school library 2.0"
b. tags
Results: When I looked at "school Library 2.0" and followed one of the posts from "Library2Play" I noticed that there are 19 posts tagged to Library2Play
c. Blog Dirctory
Results:
I was unable to type in "School library 2.0" In the dirctory it was labeled "web 2.0"

LibraryThing
http://ww.librarything.com/
I wonder why there is only two w's in the url?
I joined Librarything

2. explore popular blog, searches and tags: interesting or surprising results...


3. create blog post about discoveries

4. Thoughts about tagging : a simple category name
There are two ways: 1) blog supports categories and RSS/Atom feeds, use category system.
2) tag post by using special httm on bottom of post.
[tagname]
two word tags should be joined with a +
Don't have to link to Technorati
a. advantages: "A simple way to categorize books according to how you think of them, not how some library official does." LibraryThing
Example would be Patricia Cornwell: I would tag her books forensic science, mystery, murder, favorites.
b. disadvantages: When there are too many books, LC is preferable.
Side note: works referes to all forms of the same piece. Example: Alice in Wonderland- hardback, softback, movie, video, edition, etc. They are all considered one work.