#14: Notes on Exploring Technorati

Technorati seems to be a very rich way to use all the information out there, and "in here" too. I visited Blogger Central's list of top 100 blogs. If you simply sort this list by number of fans, Boing Boing wins. I don't know anything about Boing Boing yet, but it wins.
Another popular one is LifeHacker which has an amazing array of useful information. Their How-To listings cover "turning your Nokia phone into a WiFi hotspot...", "calming down before a speech," "recover from cooking disasters" and thwarting pesky 800-number calls. I was perusing one of their links, http://800notes.com/ when my phone rang and I was immediately able to type the 800 number into that site and track the caller, learning that this 800 caller ignores attempts to be on a no-call list, and tends to call around 8PM.
A search under Internet Marketing and social media led me to http://www.doshdosh.com/ Very interesting and intelligent material about web content and the importance of “becoming an authority in your niche” helps explain to me one of the most valuable things about social media: really having something worth sharing. Doshdosh also discusses how good content is only really an asset when it is shared. Good point.

I got a bit lost in my meandering, and failing to tag everything in De.lici.ous, can't recall where I found this novel use of Technorati: to track a group of traveling & blogging students, using a prearranged tag to better access the group project. Thus the group organizer back home could access all the posts for retrieval using this unique tag. Ingenious!
I looked up Learning 2.0. in Technorati where a task of this lesson was to compare search results using tags, blog posts and the directory. For some reason, I am not understanding where these features are on the Technorati site. Here is a good reason to ask someone else in the program. When Technology isn't helping, ask a person!
Last and best, I found a video of Helene and Charles, who present the program, wrapping up for a group of over 360 participants in late 2006. How nice to finally meet the face behind the voice of Helene Blowers.