Maybe I'm just being dense, but I don't quite see how technorati is so much different from all the other blog searches available. It does seem to go to more lengths to organize the blogosphere into easily digestible chunks, but how useful is that, really? I guess if I were to base the value of a blog on how popular it was, technorati could be helpful. But what goes into determining if a blog is popular or not? I'm assuming it has to do with how many people visit the blog and possibly give it some kind of rating. But how do I know that their visiting a blog or their rating of it provides an accurate portrayal of how usefull a blog is? As has been mentioned several times throughout this web 2.0 program, anyone can create a blog and say pretty much anything they want. Though I know absolutely nothing about the topics, I could create a blog espousing various and sundry theories about quantum mechanics or the best way to rid your backyard of moles, and if I made my blog interesting and/or attractive enough, I could theoretically attract many visitors and become quite popular. That still doesn't mean, however, that I have any clue about what I'm writing.
Instead of monitoring a blog's popularity, I would be more interested in a blog search that attempted to organize blogs based on their usefullness and accuracy. Assuming such a thing is possible, of course.
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