The one great thing about all this new tech stuff is it gives you a chance to question where they got all these weird names for things. I never got into Star Trek but I have this suspicion it originated there. Look at Technorati.......I got the tech part. Where in the world does norati come from. I admit I took a class in college that we studied root words. Greek, good stuff. Years later I still look at a word and try to figure out where it root lies, so I can gather the meaning. This is all lost on tech talk for as much as I can see.Perhaps that is why I still feel like a foreigner in this land. It reminds me of a language where anyone can call anything they want. Whoooooooooeee.Let the first grade teachers take that one on.
For Myra's sake, and my credit hours I did explore Technorati more on my own. I agree with several of my fellow bloggers it was more difficult then we thought it would be. I imagined myself typing in my favorite past times and reaping scads of blogs fine tuned to my desires. Nope. How about two million hits in gardening to look through, and guess what… Those nasty sex links we see all over our email are there. I have no idea what kind of garden they are growing! I failed miserable and my blogline is pretty much empty right now. I did see some angry moms with teenagers have blogs and I might join them for fun. I need to write something about how I will use this with students or in my job. In a few more weeks I hope to discover that.
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Okay...okay...I must admit: Technorati is not one of my favorite tools. It has some unique uses, such a analytic data, and I think that everyone will discover and use those as needed. Learning about tagging is something that will bridge most 2.0 tools. We'll touch on it some in class, but do try
http://blogsearch.google.com.
I think you all will find this a much better tool for searching blogs of interest.
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