"Technorati Technobabble . . ."

(or)
". . . How to waste an hour and a half on a quiet Sunday evening when you have better things that you could be doing!"

After spending much longer exploring Technorati than I had initially planned (it's getting to be a problem – this seems to be the case with every exercise in the Library 2.0 course), here's what I came up with:

1.There were 18,990 results that popped up for "Learning 2.0"
2.I searched for my own blog, "Pollywog's Pad," and found it. Unfortunately I have ZERO fans (yeah, big surprise!) - whatever that means.
3.I did an advanced search and found that there were 1,137 posts that were tagged "Library 2.0" and 663 blogs about "Library 2.0."
4.While scanning through the list of blogs I found one I recognized - "Elizabeth's Endeavors" (elizabeththebibliophile.blogspot.com). Yes!!! Someone I know! That was exciting. Really.
5.I explored the popular blogs and came up with one called "Boing Boing." Apparently this is a "weblog of cultural curiosities and interesting technologies. It's the most popular blog in the world, as ranked by Tecnorati.com . . ."
6.In looking at the top searches I came across everything from "asian" to "myspace" to "kaboom." Yeah, the connection makes perfect sense to me too. I clicked on "asian" and as suspected, came up with a slew of inappropriate links. CLASSY.
7.As an aside, just for kicks I Googled "Pollywog's Pad," just to see if it would pull it up. And sure enough, trusty ol' Google came through once again . . . sort of. It pulled up "Elizabeth's
Endeavors" which through the magic of technology is somehow linked to my own blog. Yay Science!

In conclusion, what did I get out of Technorati? I will answer the question with a question – "Do you think somebody will ever invent a time machine so that I can go back in time and reclaim the hour and a half I lost in looking at the overwhelmingly cluttered and seemingly pointless gobbledygook that is Technorati?"