Technorati

I resume this learning discovery after a hiatus of several weeks of leave, project work etc. Fearing that I'd lost the momentum and the thread of continuity I'm pleasantly surprised that one's able to drop and pick up this programme of learning anytime. This flexibility is an important aspect for many of us who balance a whole lot of tasks at work while trying to fit in important stuff like Learning 2.0.

Technorati works like a search engine for blogs, all types of postings and tags assigned by users to find blog posts, photos, videos, audio. There are other websites that do this function such as Feedster and Bloglines. Even some traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo do the same thing to some extent. Google has searchable categories such as news and groups while Yahoo has entertainment, sports and video.

Technorati certainly gives you a feel of how over-populated online opinion is and opens up opportunities to link up to like-minded communities.