Monday, July 21, 2008

Week 6, thing 14 Technorati

I visited Technorati and got very confused. I don't find it to be very user friendly and doing searches seemed to lead me in circles. After a few hours of 'playing' I did the keyword search for "School Library Learning 2.0" and got 266 hits. The search under "tags" produced only 5 hits.
Tagging is just another way to organize information, but not so formal/standard as we do in libraries. The advantage is that it's a flexible way to sort topics. The disadvantage is it takes some guessing at what tag others would choose to use to sort their information. There is no really wrong or right way to "tag" an item of information so you could find something quickly or invest time into finding your information.

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