#14 Technorati

Before searching around this site tonight, I really had no idea what Technorati did or what it was for. I followed the activity suggestions and searched learning 2.0 in the directory and in the tags and the results were quite different ... but neither very satisfying. The tag search returned a lot of very general material, so I can see the importance of considering the tags I decide to use rather than shooting from the hip. The advanced search returned the best results, a series of new blogs I'd not come across yet but which I'm looking forward to returning to. I liked Technorati and I'll return but I'm not quite ready to let the spiders loose yet.

And as an aside, I saw the VALA conference programme via Technorati and doesn't it look fabbo. Helene Blowers is keynote speaker and I expect there will be some good blogs to read in February, when the conference is on in Melbourne.