Thank God, finally it worked

After several attempts, my mutterings increased, but I finally succeeded in tagging to Technorati. Apparently I had too many of these: < or these: > or somethings or others. Give me the high five, yeah baby!

#14 Technorati

Wow! Technorati, the holy mother of blogs everywhere! I think it's amazing that blogging #s are doubling every 6 months. Everyone wants to have their say. Remember the movie where the guy yells out the window, "I'm mad and I don't want to take it anymore!"

I watched the new screencast (Technorati Tour)showing the new updates to Technorati, and it covered alot, but it covered it way too fast! I feel like I'd have to watch it several times before some of it sunk in. There is so much to look at on Technorati that it is overwhelming!

I found 25,050 posts about Learning 2.0 from the main Search box. When I did a tag search I followed the tag to a blog called Happy Trails - from a CLSA middle school teacher on a learning 2.0 team. In the Blog Directory search, which I found from the Advanced search link, it only coughed up 494 blogs about Learning 2.o. Interesting. It's neat how there is a little pink box that gives the # of adoring fans that follow that blog. (it doesn't take much to tickle me) I did find Helene Blowers blog this way.

I like how I can keep track of my favorite blogs.

I'm wrestling to associate a post with a Technorati tag, so here I go:

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I had already claimed by blog awhile back on Technorati and I don't remember it being too difficult. (Alas,of course, I can't remember yesterday, let alone 2 months ago.

I've also manually pinged (sounds naughty, doesn't it)my blog, but I want to set it up to do that automatically with Technorati. (I hope)

Technorati

I just claimed my blog on Technorati - was surprisingly easy to do. It's amazing how some sites provide straight-forward easy to follow step-by-step instructions and others don't! I want to show my patrons who come to my computer classes on blogging next week - how to find my blog on Technorati.

#8 Finding Feeds

Today I've been exploring some of the search tools for feeds - like Feedster, Topix.net, Syndice.com, and Technorati. I had used Technorati before, but not the others. Bloglines now offers a search for feeds and I hadn't known that before reading it in 23 things. Good to know. It is very hard to stop at just a few feeds when there are so many interesting ones out there!!!

Here is a cute video I found while searching for posts and feeds on Shih-Tzus (because we have an adorable one) on the Blogline search:
http://video.sanriotown.com/engine/flaon/player?idcode=4330

My bloglines account has been set up set last year -
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/The-Spibrarian