Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

Took a good look around Technorati and did a keyword search for "Learning 2.0" in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory. There were differences in the results. From the Technorati Search Page I found putting a capital "L" and a lowercase"l" for the word "learning" and having a gap between the word "learning" and "2.0" and having no gap between the word "learning" and "2.0" gave you different results. I found these results:

Learning2.0 - 251 posts
Learning 2.0 - 684 posts
learning2.0 - 254 posts
learning 2.0 - 684 posts

So as you can see there is a big difference in how you do tag your blog posts.

Using Technorati's Advanced Search I did a Tag Search and found again that there were differences in the results and here they are:

learning 2.0 - 686 posts tagged
learning2.0 - 266 posts tagged
Learning 2.0 - 684 posts tagged
Learning2.0 - 263 posts tagged

I then looked at the Blog Directory and the directory is only used to find blogs about subjects you are interested in or to find blogs by their blog title, it doesn't give you the number of blog posts which have the same tags - so no results here.

Exploring popular blog, searches and tags I found the most popular blog was Boing Boing with 3,820 fans and the Top 100 blogs by authority was Breaking News and Opinion on the Huffington Post, which had 26,454 blog reactions (comments). Under Top Searches I looked at the topic Olympics and came across this blog post Beijing 2008: Sky Team's Microblog [IMG] - in the blog it mentioned that 22 Sky News people will be covering the Olympics by contributing to a Microblog using mobile phones, this is very ingenious for getting news out of China and bypassing China's censorship rules don't you think.