Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Week 6: #14

This exercise was done on Technorati. The first part was doing a search using the keywords "Learning 2.0." I noted that my favorite way to search was by using the Blog Directory. I think the user interface is much more attractive than the results of either the advanced search or the tags search. It was also fairly easy to pick out the interesting library-related blogs from the directory.

The second part, viewing the popular searches, was eye-opening. It is astounding to me what some people find interesting. The most curious popular item was "bikini." I had to find out why so many people were searching it. Even more interesting was looking at names of the related tags. This suggested a certain demographic of viewer.

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