Take It Back

I woke up in the middle of the night, thinking that I hadn’t given Technorati a fair chance. Instead, said I, what would I want to read blogs about? Well, given my current state of mind, lambing.

So, I searched for lambing, and came across a site called Daily Dose of Cute – they look just like HazelLambs. But the best thing, for my anxiety right now, was this video of Lambing a Ewe at Furlands. If you’re of the squeamish type, don’t look. I’ve only had to do this a few times in 13 years, reading my book the whole time, but it worked. Mostly, our lambs just pop out. But, I always have to anticipate. And learn a little bit more from watching how others do it.

Now, let’s see if any of this works. And if it does, I will be more respectful of Technorati. Because sometimes, reading blogs has real value.

Technorati

This is a hard one. What do I think about technorati and how does it compare to google and google blog search.? I happened to be looking for lobster recipes, so that’s the first search term I entered. By far, google had the most returns, but they all seemed to return the same sort of stuff.

Another search, May poems, sayings, got zillions at Google, 329 at Technorati, and 238 at Google Blog Search. Blog search was disappointing. It gave me blogs about poems and sayings, while google gave me poems and sayings about May. I don’t quite get Technorati. I think it’s all blogs. The thing is, I’m not really thrilled about reading the argy-bargy of people babbling stream-of consciousness about whatever. That said, I did read quite a bit while I was exploring in Technorati. But thinking about that, was much of what I read going back to the original news story?

Mostly I like Google because it’s so empty. Technorati is too busy.