I have never used Technorati very much. I think this says something about how I incorporate blogs into my information-seeking behavior online. I usually learn about blogs that I want to read from other blogs, or else I have a particular author in mind and I track down their blog (again, usually froma a link or general web search). Technorati’s concept of Authority is interesting–the more other people link to your blog, the more authority you have on Technorati. To me, this sounds like popularity as much as anything else–interesting that in the blogosphere, popularity is very akin to authority. Is it that there are so many blogs out there that only the ones really worth their weight will end up with lots of links, and therefore they really do have more authority?
ps-I discovered that to add my technorati tags, I needed to look at my post in code view–otherwise WordPress added some code to my code that messed up how it came out.
