I enjoyed my evening with Technorati. This is an incredible tool for managing and organizing blogs. I signed up for an account, placed a "fave my blog" link on my blog, selected a few blogs as my own favorites, and then did a search on LIbrary 2.0 as suggested in the activities for Thing 14. A blog search turned up 665 blogs on Library 2.0, while a tag search gave 2,369 posts tagged Library 2.0, and a post search found 44,512 posts that mentioned Library 2.0.
For my purposes this evening, the blog search was the most useful. But I'm sure there will be times when I want to find references to something within a post, and definitely I will want to use the tag search regularly.
I have never read blogs very much, because I couldn't seem to figure out where to start. Looking through Technorati tonight though, gave me a much better feel for how to find relevant, fun, or interesting sites, and how to keep up with what is posted on them.
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