Searched in Technorati for Learning 2.0 in all blogs and 4,020 results were returned - Wow! Because I'm doing this project from the Eastern Campus, I already am experiencing this as a part of an online community, but one limited to the OU libraries. The search in Technorati raises my awareness of the scope of this project beyond the world of OU and beyond the world of academic libraries. And beyond the US - I found posts are in Dutch, Spanish, and Italian! Talk about a global community!
When I did the tag search, only 3 entries, but also had videos and pictures come up as results, including the Learning 2.0 video starring our fearless leader, Jan Maxwell!
Third option, Blog Directory Search. Results: 489 blogs about learning 2.0. I looked at one to see where the phrase learning 2.0 is located and I couldn't find it, so I suspected that a few of the results were irrelevant. Did the search again using quotations marks around the words learning 2.0 and only got 168 results. This time the results had the words learning 2.0 in the titles.
So, you can search in Technorati to find blogs using a keyword search, tag search = subject search, and blog directory search = title search. This experience shows that tagging blogs is a good idea. The keyword search returned many results, but the tag search returned only a few. The title search worked well for relevancy, but, as we can see from the titles of the blogs at OU libraries, most of these relevant learning 2.0 blogs will not be returned in the list of results.
I did a tag search of oulibraries in Technorati and my post did not show up.
I think I'll go figure out how to tag my blog now...
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