Tagging, Blogging, and Technorati

Wait a moment...I should clear up my thoughts first...This lab is too complex to do. I spent a whole afternoon to finish it. Finally I finish it although I do not know whether it is correct. Anyway, I try my best.

According to the instructions, firstly I created an account and claimed my blog at Technorati. Then I visited to Technorati's homepage, and used "search in blog posts" to find "most popular" blogs. I clicked "100 top blogs" and picked up 4 blogs of interest to me. Then I copied their websites and pasted on "my favorites" in Technorati. Also I linked my friend's blog, and I wanted to know things about him, so I added his blog as my favorites as well. He is also taking COST 280. HoHo!!

I visited the 5 favorite blogs, and I try to add all of them to my RSS reader. But I cannot. I only can add 3 of them to my RSS reader, because other 2 blogs do not have Google feeds.

I believe that tagging is a useful identification system, and I have used it in my msn space as well. It is easiler to find something I need. I have msn space for over 2 years, and I have written a lot of acticles. Sometimes I want to read them again, but it is hard to know which article is the one I want to read. Tagging helps me. In my msn space, there are some tags of dates, so I can find those articles according to the dates. Also, I use tagging to mark my pictures and links of my friends' blogs. Tagging is very useful for me to classify my blog posts, pictures and some links. But I do not think Technorati is more usefeul than tagging. But on this course Technorati is useful. Such as this lab, instructors can input "COST 280" to search and know which students have submitted this lab assignment.

I use the specified Technorati instructions to tag this post with "COST" and "280". I linked to the given website, and find the following [tagname tagname], then I changed the tagnames to COST and 280. This is like JAVA. I studied it a little bit in China.

Links to the four blogs I found using Technorati: 1)http://zlw521.blogspot.com/2007/05/technorati-support.html 2)http://technorati.com/blogs/www.engadget.com 3)http://www.technorati.com/blogs/yanxi.bokewu.com 4)http://postsecret.blogspot.com/. I chose the first blog because it is my friend's. I have explained the reason in the second paragraph. The second blog is the most popular blog I searched. I were wondering why it is so popular, so I chose it. The third blog is the only one in Chinese on the first page when I searched 100 top blogs. I want to know what is about in this blog. The last blog has a great name, and there are a lot of wonderful pictures.

To be honest, I only use RSS reader and Technorati favorites to do the labs on this course. But I love to use tagging to mark my blogs.

Tag this post: [COST 280]
My RSS reader: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/12406382883418556147
My Technorati site (including my 4 favorites): http://technorati.com/faves/GreatPumpkin0546?show=blogs