TechnoWHATi???

Week 7: Thing 11

I had never heard of Technorati, but it makes complete sense that a service like this would exist. The first thing that I found interesting was that most of the MomBlogs that I read are not at the top of any list I could find, which makes me question what happens to blogs that are not logged with Technorati? Is there a service that actually just ranks blogs, that are not registered? And what actually constitutes a blog... I saw that Huffington Post counts as a blog... really??? That seems so commercial and so not a blog.

So I found a couple of interesting things from Technorati. First of all, except for Huffington Post, I was only vaguely familiar with one or two other blogs. Second, I noticed that education was not one of the top categories that was listed. Then, even when I did a search on education, I found very few blogs that were actually on education in the sense of a school, the term education seems to be used in a very broad sense.  Once I did a search on "teachers" in blogs, that narrowed down my choices to blogs that I was more interested in. I also did a search on "edutech" in blogs, which had a nice turnout, but searching for "edutech" in posts, only produced 2 results.

I also noticed that the majority of blogs in the top 100, seemed to be on entertainment, gaming and politics. Sometimes when I do searches like this, I realize why the rest of the world thinks that we are mindless idiots. The things we pay attention to! Ugh! I wonder if we do that to alleviate stress from our actual lives... hmmm.

One last question... who decided that Technorati was an authority? :D