Week 14, Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.

Technorati is a company that tracks blogs. Following is the definition of a tag from Technorati. A tag is a keyword or short phrase that writers assign to articles to describe or identify the content: the subject matter, the people involved, the type of article, themes addressed. This helps people searching for a particular type of content to find articles using those tags.

I searched on this site, MCPL and Montgomery County Public Libraries/Library. Both searches resulted in zero hits out of 1,187,463 blogs. This result indicates tagging with too specific a word is not useful. There are personal names such as: aaron, alex, and brian listed on the "Popular tags on Technorati.com over the last month." Thinking about popularity of blogs everywhere, this number seems a bit small. Am I mislead by the media or marketers?