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Technorati.com is a website that monitors and rates blogs by popularity based on hyperlinks. It also allows users to organize their favorite blogs and find new ones through the Watchlist feature. Technorati also tracks vlogs, podcasts, and homemade videos.
Web logs or blogs have become so popular and influential that even cable news pundits mention them on the nightly newscasts. The blogosphere refers to the online world of blogs, which in the bigger picture includes not just influential blogs, but all blogs. As of fall 2006, the total number of blogs is estimated to be over 54 million and, according to one source, is rising at a rate of 75,000 a day. So how do you find ‘good blogs’ in this sea of blogs? The definitive source by many accounts is Technorati.com.
Technorati monitors blog updates, organizes blogs by topic and rates them by popularity. Popularity is measured by the amount of hyperlinks to a blog, the reasoning being that the more hyperlinks a blog has, the more popular it is. If you want to check out the most popular blogs related to entertainment, for example, you just need to click on that category. A series of time-stamped bloglines are displayed with the title, author and opening line. If you want to read the whole blog, just click on the title.
If you’d like to become a free member, Technorati makes it easy to organize your favorite blogs into a custom list using the built-in website tools. Another useful feature is the Watchlist. Enter the keywords you are interested in and Technorati will return blogs that mention those keywords.
Technorati membership could also help new bloggers get a head start. By becoming a member, one can upload a photo and profile and “claim a blog”, thereby becoming part of the Technorati blogosphere and database. While a new blog may not have hyperlinks to increase its popularity rating, the Watchlist feature Technorati provides to its members could make it easier for people to find a new blog than if the blogger were going it alone.
Technorati’s massive clearinghouse also tracks video logs or vlogs, podcasts, and homemade videos. So whether it’s the hottest blogs, vlogs, or podcasts you’re after, chances are Technorati.com has you covered.
This article is provided for informational purposes only. Conjecture and wiseGEEK are not affiliated with Technorati.com and hold no position regarding its endorsement.
