{"id":213,"date":"2006-06-26T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T18:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=213"},"modified":"2006-06-26T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T18:26:06","slug":"using-technorati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/06\/26\/using-technorati\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Technorati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a kind comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/archives\/2006\/06\/curing_email_ov.html\">the recent del.icio.us HOWTO posts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theotherthomasotter.wordpress.com\/\">Thomas<\/a> said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI&#8217;m beginning to get the point of this delicious thing, unlike technorati which promised so much, only to disappoint.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>What Technorati&#8217;s Good For: Search, Tags, and Microformats<\/h2>\n<p>Indeed, figuring out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\">Technorati<\/a> takes a bit of patience. To me, there are 3 things that Technorati does:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It filters out all the spam and crap from blog searches that you see in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\">blogsearch.google.com<\/a> and has more human authored content than other blog search services. I, of course, subscribe to RSS feeds that track incoming links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleoverprocess.com\">this blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com.\">RedMonk in general<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wwww.drunkandretired.com\">my personal blog, DrunkAndRetired.com<\/a>. I use blogsearch and technorati, and technorati always comes with the quality content. blogsearch is filled with trade-rag reposts and spam blogs. Weird that Google can&#8217;t figure that out, huh?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\">Technorati tags<\/a> is good for surfing topics and publishing tags. For example, I can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/powershell\">http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/powershell<\/a> (or, more likely, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.technorati.com\/feed\/posts\/tag\/powershell\">subscribe to the RSS feed<\/a>) to see a lot of posts tagged with &#8220;powershell.&#8221; In the same way that technorati does a good job of filtering out the crap and spam, the tagged posts tend to be &#8220;real&#8221; content from real people, not just spam bots or reposts. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/\">James<\/a> bounded into us for awhile, tagging a post with technorati tags is always worth <i>at least<\/i> a handful of incoming links. It&#8217;s good for information consumers and producers.<\/li>\n<li>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/kitchen.technorati.com\/search\/\">the microformat search<\/a> to play around with microformats. If the service wasn&#8217;t so new, I&#8217;d be disappointed at how &#8220;lite&#8221; it is, but it only came out last month, so I&#8217;m happy with the functionality is has&#8230;as long as it continues to grow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technorati also has some good platform capabilities built it into, along with several smart folks working there that are scaling out the functionality, <a href=\"http:\/\/microformats.org\/\">microformats<\/a> being the current example, and <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\">tags<\/a> the previous.<\/p>\n<p>In summary: technorati has figured out how to filter out all the crap from blogosphere searches, meaning I can get high quality content from them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/microformats\" rel=\"tag\">microformats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/rss\" rel=\"tag\">rss<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/search\" rel=\"tag\">search<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/technorati\" rel=\"tag\">technorati<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a kind comment on the recent del.icio.us HOWTO posts, Thomas said: I&#8217;m beginning to get the point of this delicious thing, unlike technorati which promised so much, only to disappoint. What Technorati&#8217;s Good For: Search, Tags, and Microformats Indeed, figuring out Technorati takes a bit of patience. 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