
Imagine 56 million blogs flying around the blogosphere cawing "Pick me! Pick me!" (Alfred Hitchcock move over). For you other new bloggers: check out the interests you listed in your profile. There is a link for each of them, and it links you to all the other bloggers with the same interest. For example, I listed "birding" as an interest and I am linked to 19,000 other birder bloggers (complete with their profiles). "Reading" was another interest and I am now linked to 4,460,000 other reader bloggers!TMI.
I tried a keyword search in Technorati of "Learning 2.0" and was surprised that there were 399 Blogs listed (there were almost as many for "Library 2.0). A search in Blog posts yielded 3 times that amount and a search in tags yielded about 450.
In exploring Technorati, what amazed me most is the popularity of blogging. There are 94.1 million US blog readers (that's 50% of the Internet users). So there seems to be a growing influence of the blogosphere on mainstream media. The only issue I have with this influence is the caveat that news isn't news just because the blogger has more "authority" (followers). What happened to sources?
Crazy, isn't it? My friend's baby has a blog...
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