Friday, August 31, 2007

Thing #10: Tagging and pinging

This was easy and worked as predicted, for both Technorati and Ping-o-Matic. An hour after the pings, a search on "melancholiacs" found my blog.

Tagging (i.e., cataloging) makes information more accessible, and is a good thing. However, the amount of information available online is often overwhelming. Technorati provides search results in order of posting, with the most recent posts first. It also ranks blogs by "authority", evaluating a blog by counting how many other blogs link to it-- authority in this case having nothing to do with scholarly soundness, but rather with popularity or even notoriety...

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