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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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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.