Technorati is interesting and a little overwhelming. When I typed in School Library Learning 2.0 and searched blogs I got 22 hits. When I searched posts I got 1,411. I can see that in using this it would depend on what you were looking to find....blogs with a focus on your topic or just posts on a number of blogs.
I wasn't really surprised when I looked at what's popular and found that #1 was American Idol. I'd heard that more people vote on American Idol than do in political races. (Grrrr....) Today was the Geraldine Ferraro debacle and the Eliot Spitzer scandal so they were #3 and #4 and the candidate I'm supporting, Barack Obama was #7. I thought it curious that Hillary Clinton wasn't in the top ten.
I also searched for a local blog that deals with a controversy in my home town, Santa Barbara. We have a "little problem" with our newspaper and there's a blog that is chronicling it written by Craig Smith, a lawyer. I'd forgotten the URL but found it easily by typing in Craig Smith and Santa Barbara.
I searched for my own library's blog in posts and read a nice comment from a blogger in British Columbia.
Regarding the advantages and disadvantages of tagging...tagging is easy, quick, no rules to follow. That the advantage. The disadvantage? No rules to follow. This means no consistency and the way I tag might not be the way you think I would tag. But all in all, I think it works especially in a world as fluid as Web 2.0.
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I think there was something in Parade magazine last week that it is a falsehood that more people vote for the American Idol winner than they do for President. So THAT's a good thing :-)
Keep up the good work on posting - you'll get through this soon and be SLL2.0 certified in no time!!!
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