Tags, links, lists, directories, searches, posts... aarrgg! They are beginning to get as muddled in my head as the million user/password combinations currently residing there...
Yet, somehow, through it all, I can still recall that seagulls drink seawater (thanks to a nifty natural filtering system in their heads).
My adventures in tagging continue, in yet a different sense. What am I tagging about now? Search engines. Specifically, search engines for blogs. Now we're cooking with gas, as my mother would say (even though she was curiously silent about the whole seagull/seawater thing). Just as with ordinary web sites, all the beautiful blogging in the world is for naught if no one reads your thoughts. The quick addition of a tag to a blog assures that search engines such as Technorati are able to find your pearls of wisdom, no matter what size... as long as the search matches your tag. C'mon, who wouldn't want to read about MRRL2.0? I'm excited just typing it.
Searching on Technorati is quick, but interpreting the results a bit more complex. Having messed around with the various search modes with the search words learning 2.0, I found what I was looking for with a directory search rather than a blog or tag one. Blog searches, in particular, will result in a hodgepodge of results (especially if not filtered by language!).
Technorati Tag:
MRRL2.0
1 comment:
Excellent point on the tagging, Eric! This is all about expressing yourself - but what's the fun in expressing yourself if you don't have someone to be expressing yourself to? Tags really help in the "findability" of your posts.
I once read a description of the Internet as a library with all the books pulled off the shelves and dumped randomly on the floor. Tagging helps us get some order and organization to those publications littering the floor of the Internet and helps Internet users find what they need. Nice post!!
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