Thing #14

Exploring Technorati was something entirely new to me, but the concept of a search engine for blogs makes perfect sense. There are so many blogs out there (and more everyday), that it makes sense to have a tool that organizes them for users. I really like the opinion that blogs have taken over as the "voice of the people" on the internet; providing users with a method to seek out, find, and organize these blogs is a valuable resource.
Tagging information (be it in blogs, Flickr, Delicious, etc.) is an effective way to organize the information. I see tagging as a way of cataloging information (the same way we librarians catalog books with subject keywords); these tags provide portals of access. Without tagging, the information wouldn't be categorized, and it therefore wouldn't be as accessible. For this reason, I find tagging to be of utmost importance when organizing any pieces of information, be they tangible (in books) or virtual (on the web).