mpi104 : week 10 : technorati

im still trying to make sense of technorati and i think im getting there but here is what i understand so far. Technorati is an internet search engine focused on the world of weblogs. it organises and processes blogs, photos, videos and many more. it allows people to get whats happening on the internet and the world right now.

i think that technorati is different but yet also the same as google. as it is both a search engine showing things that are the most popular pages but technorati searches through tags that people have put on their blogs. this doesnt really make that much sense at the moment but hopefully someone can shed some light to technorati in the next few lessons as im sure we will be talking about it or rather people will be very competitive about their rank and authority.

when someone says rank i think of high school or really any group which has some sort of hierarchy thus i find it really petty that a website's main purpose is showing how someone is 'ranked' in the world. authority is also similar as its defined as a power or right delegated or given. i believe everyone is equal and yes there are people in the world that have more authority and it can not be determined through technorati.

my rank: 641,369
my authority: 8

from what i can gather the smaller your rank the higher you are in the ranking system that technorati uses. the authority is how many people have saved your blog. over the next week or so i will keep checking my numbers.



technorati’s 100 most popular blogs.

my fav. blog at the moment is seths blog as it has a good balance between form and content. the information is very informative and would be useful if you are into that sort of stuff. but i like reading random things and i do find it interesting.



there are more snapshots of blogs that i find aesthetically pleasing at my flickr account.