I had a look at Technorati and did the exercise of searching for Learning 2.0 in the Advanced Search - I found 6,265 entries by a keyword search; 618 by a tag search and 728 by a directory search. So nearly 100 people with a directory entry don't have a tag for "Learning 2.0".
I can see how useful Technorati is for finding subject specialised blogs; but it's a bit dispiriting to see the most popular tags and search terms. Britney Spears (couldn't that girl's parents spell?), royal blackmail, celebrity gossip....Boing Boing, listed as the "Top Blog", features a promo for a "decapitated doll's head pencil sharpener": you put the pencil in her eye and the shavings come out the mouth. It all seems a bit low rent - rather like the "News of the World' online (ex-Poms will understand).
Then I cheered myself up by finding some really interesting blogs - like the wonderful "Brit Lit Blog" and wasted several hours swanning around there. The blog "The Scottish Patient" has info about the latest Alasdair Gray novel "Old Men in Love" AND photos of him enjoying a refreshment in an Edinburgh bar. His novel "Lanark" is astonishing - highly recommended.
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