Week 6, Thing 14

Prior to this graduate course, I used Google's blog search tool.  Although Google's Blog Search is effective, I believe Technorati is more advanced.   Through the discovery exercises, I discovered the Blog Directory.  It offered a wide range of categories and subcategories.  It was great to see so many web 2.0 blogs reach the top 100 popular blog list!  While exploring the top 100 blogs, I discovered the user can choose either to search for popular blogs either by authority or by the number of fans. Pretty neat!

It was asked of us to compare the advantages and disadvantages of tagging.  While I love organization and order, what I consider an appropriate tag, may not be the tag another would think of.  I expect tagging also sets limitations when searching for results, whether on Flickr, Del.icio.us, or blogs.

Overall I believe tagging is helpful, especially if there is an overwhelming amount of information.  For the purpose of this blog, the information is easily accessed through the blog archive, thus I do not feel it is necessary to tag/label each posting.