Technorati

I could spend hours on this website if I allowed myself. Technorati is a blog search engine. It allows the user to search blogs, but also specific blog posts. What I found particularly interesting, however, was looking through the site's "Top 100," which lists (obviously) the top 100 most frequented blogs. It also charts which blogs are rising and falling in popularity. Probably not surprisingly, celebrity, political, and techie blogs seemed to dominate. I did come across a few new blogs that I'm excited to start following with more regularity.

I did a few searches on random topics I'm interested in to get a feel for the site. I searched "school libraries" in the "blogs" search category and found a handful of great blogs published by librarians or educational groups. Yet to me it was also interesting to search this same topic in the "blog posts" category because it gave me the perspective of what people are saying about school libraries outside "the biz" (outside the profession--just articles or posts from the general public). I think it's important to not get too stuck in our education bubble, but remember to get a perspective from people who aren't frequently reading educational articles or understanding the issues from an insider perspective.

I also searched "Utah runner" and found...absolutely nothing on the topic. I did find a great blog about trail running in the Wasatch Front, which is something I'm interested in getting in to, but there are no blogs, at least according to Technorati that features running specifically geared to Utahns. Very interesting. Maybe there's a market here. I may decide to become a part-time blogger. Watch out Huffington Post.

Here's a link to the site:
Technorati