Technorati and Blog Tags

I haven't had much time to explore fully Technorati but what I was able to do made me want to come back to it when time allows. I liked the Technorati Tour but I was unable to get to a page that looked like that. It showed the following headings that didn't come up when I clicked on the Technorati link: Discover, Top Blog Posts, What's the Buzz. Maybe I needed to set up an account. I didn't do that, nor did I claim my blog. I did explore Popular Blogs and in Boing Boing (the most popular site) I search "Astronomy" and all that came up were two blogs, one containing photos of owls taken by an astronomy student, and a totally cool site about the "oldest accurate roadmap of Britain" made in 1360 possibly using and astrolabe, an instrument used by astronomers and navigators. Okay, I realize I'm a geek, and maybe there are no blogs on astronomy and that is as good as it gets. But for the most popular site I was expecting some cool amateur astronomy photos, comet sightings or blogs on string theory. Not there. Oh well. Still and all I'm intrigued and I'm warming up to tag clouds. Still I think it's more for browsing, which is fun, but when you really need information a google search or wikipedia gets to it faster.