Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts

How big is the blogosphere? Technorati is currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media....according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.

First --- a keyword search for "Cybrariancyndi" and I came up with one result Week 2 - Thing 3 Blog and Avatar . It was 21 days ago Tagged: Cybrarian Cyndi's first blog posting Has a screen shot and rating ..................Cybrarian Cyndi's Blog........http://cybrariancyndisblog.blogspot.com/
Rank: 8,911,336

Now on to “School Library Learning 2.0” in 1,817 results 32 posts, 20 blogs, 42 photo's in tags. I then explored popular blog, searches and tags.

OK I've tagged posts with Technorati tags -- become part of Technorati tag searches. Then to claiming my blog and created a watchlist. Also checked into how to favorite blogs where I chose my favorite blogs so the latest posts will always be listed.
REMEMBER: HTML code - make sure in Blogger's Edit HTML window.
Checked out Technorati Tour – Technorati Discover & Popular features

******************Curriculum Connections -- use Technorati to locate blogs and other sites relating to election when we (Collaborated lessons with 8th and 7th grade Social Studies classes) work with research and the unit on the election.

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