The Biblio File

For Thing # 14, we were supposed to explore Technorati. I have mixed feelings about Technorati. I know it’s supposed to be the go-to place for blog related anything, but I have to admit I rarely use it. I think it’s difficult to find things that I’m looking for. For instance, I searched the blog directory for “books,” which, in theory, should give me blogs that are primarily about books. However, the first result (ranked according to “relevance”) was the huffingtonpost.com. A great blog to be sure, but it’s about politics, not books. In fact, there weren’t even any good book blogs in the first page of results. I’ve found that just using google (or google blog search) is much more likely to return relevant results. The search “blogs about books” in google turned up my favorite book blog, Jessica Crispin’s Blog of a Bookslut, as the second result.

But, having looked at Technorati again for this assignment, I do feel like I need to give it another solid try. I actually think that browsing, rather than searching, might be the best way to find material. At the very least, I want to look through the Top 100 to see what all is there. By the way, how in the world did LOL Cats get to be number 10?