Thing #16 -- Technorati

What Del.icio.us does for websites, Technorati does for Blog sites. If you want to know what a blogger has to say about a subject, Technorati does the subject search for you. Using the advanced search tool gives more Boolean options. When I searched Learning 2.0 by URL, the results came up with 627 posts, marked by authority numbers.
Surprise, there's several libraries across the country who are doing this same program, and a few post a video of their awards drawing.
Using the tag search function brought about 560 hits, but seemed to focus on more of the academic aspects of learning technology, also showing authority numbers. Sorry, but I didn't see much of a difference between these two searches.
Using the directory function resulted in 774 blogs, and these showed fan numbers rather than authority numbers. The fan numbers were not impressively large :)
Other blogs I found were indeed interesting. A site about the San Diego fires showed how some people were able to make virtual maps of the evacuation sites, and they learned to do that by 'playing' with the technology--much like we are doing with this project!