My favorite thing about technorati, ASAP is that it recognizes multiple word tags. The no-space tag allowed by Delicious always irritates me, so any application that uses comma delineated tagging appeals to me. The tag list is really helpful and, of course, I love tag clouds. I checked up on Barack Obama, found some great blogs, but found myself, unwittingly of course, on a travel blog, which was advocating a new webpage that helps find least expensive airfair.
I am now a registered blogger at Technorati. I cannot wait to see if I show up in a search--the tags I use may or may not be the ones that get search by people who need to find my information. I searched Ask.com, Google, Yahoo, and Bing, as well as Technorati for "School Library Learning 2.0." All search engines returned better results than Technorati (0). The search engines were pretty much a dead heat--all returned several hits, including the main site and either Week 6 or 7 or both.
I have added a bit of knowledge about using title tags in search engine optimization (SEO). What I have always taught kids in English classes works on the web as well--be specific, be thorough. Now, it is a bit depressing to think that I might spend days and weeks writing an article for a blog or website that will just be scanned by readers, but that is just what I do all the time. Better make it good, better make it quick. Teaching students to very carefully consider content on the web, to evaluate it and synthesize it, becomes all the more a serious concern--teaching them the difference between what takes close reading and what can be quickly digested is a problem for every classroom today.
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