I have a love/hate relationship with blog-specific search engines. On the one had I long-ago "claimed" this blog in Technorati to make sure that it was indexing my content. I also appreciate that those of us attending conferences like Computers in Libraries can tell those who wish to follow along to just watch for the conference tag in Technorati.
On the other hand, I don’t use it for searching at all. I rarely find myself asking "Gee, I wonder what’s being said about this topic in the blogosphere." Is it that I don’t care what bloggers have to say about a topic, no. It’s just that I already follow via RSS the bloggers I care about so I already know what they think.
I suppose I could use something like Technorati more and maybe I should give it a second chance, but it just doesn’t come to mind when I need to search for things.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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One Reply to “Thing #14: Technorati”
I use Technorati RSS feeds to track references to Open Stacks and Uncontrolled Vocabulary, as well as the cil2008 tag.
I use Technorati RSS feeds to track references to Open Stacks and Uncontrolled Vocabulary, as well as the cil2008 tag.