Week 2 adventure - Technorati

Technorati - what strikes me first about this search is that from simply typing in "Library" I am presented with immediate results but more helpfully, a list of tags (other words I could use to better search, refine my search, other ways of expressing what it is I'm looking for) - this is especially useful considering how everyone both uses different words to express the same thing and different language to define concepts and ideas - very cool.
Technorati also gives me 4 options - posts, blogs, video, photos. If I select blogs I find a usable page that doesn't confuse me with an overload of text (a good thing for me) and 12, 078 hits (wow!).
Refined to 1,078 blogs about Libraries. Now if I search for "Libraries Australia" I get 12 hits and a much more manageable, and I hope relevant selection. Noticeable in this smaller group is the Sydney Boys High library blog. The one I best like the sound of is The Booksnob's Blog - A library-oriented blog in which the intrepid booksnob writes without fear or favour about books gorgeous and wonderful, strange and unusual, with the occasional digression into movies and music.

Technorati is useful, it's a great starting point for finding out more and for any newbie to blogging a helpful hand to have around.