Thing #14: Technorati and How Tags Work

I took a look at Technorati and even joined. I was able to search blogs and posts but not tags. It was interesting browsing through the top 100 tags. Clicking on one of the top 100 provided a lot of different kinds of information on that particular tag. If there is a way to search for tags, this site does not make it user friendly. I came up with zero posts and blogs for School Library Learning 2.0. I changed my search to "4th of July" and came up with 23 blogs and 97 posts. On Delicious, Flickr, and LibraryThing, tags are very easy to use. What I like most about tags is they are a "people powered search" per the Chicago Tribune. I sincerely hope it stays that way.