Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Thing 14

Technorati was a lot of fun to explore. I would venture to say that it was the most enjoyable "thing" to do so far. I did the Learning 2.0 search and found that a keyword search produced almost 27,000 results, while a tag search found 3,511, and the blog directory search found 254. Of course, blogs are way more encompassing than keywords or tags, but still, it was interesting to see how you can narrow, so to speak, your search.
I really loved just exploring Technorati. Clicking on the tag "lipstick" brought me to a slide show of Connie Francis, with her song, "Lipstick on Your Collar" playing in the background. I did a search for Audrey Hepburn and found an utterly fascinating video of famous actresses, from the 1920s to present, in which each faces morphs into the next one, with a lovely classical cello piece playing in the background. I also found the moving and lovely tribute to Miss Hepburn that I now have on my blog. The popular blog search had a video of our Vice-President, otherwise known as the Man Behind the Throne, talking, in the early 90s, of how worthless and destructive it would have been to go after Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War. Hmmmmmmm.......
So, needless to say, I spent a delightful and eye-opening time with Technorati, and plan to visit it again.