This is a blogging world. Only a few short years ago, Blogs were a newly emerging form of self publication. Now they are everywhere. Anyone who has an opinion, a passion or merely a desire to share, can create a blog and be connected to millions of people. So how do we keep track of these hundreds of thousands of blogs and find those that are the most reliable and interesting to us? Technorati is one way to do so!
I found Technorati a great site to look up blogs by post topics, blog title, and category. I am a cupcake lover! So the first think I looked up was....cupcakes! When I did a search by post title, I found some great recipes for Boston Cream Cupcakes (which look sinful:) and Nutella Cupcakes (YUM!) both at The Kitchn (yes that is spelled correctly) -which happens to be a highly rated blog site when you look in the "blog directory" under 'living' and then 'food'.
When I put "cupcakes" into the search under blog titles, I got totally different results such as Cupcakes Take the Cake and Baking Bites. I was less impressed with these results because these blogs have more commentary and fewer recipes. So I found what I really wanted by doing a post search. That might not always be the case but for this example, that is what I found.
I also found it interesting that the most well represented categories were in the areas of books, small business, food, home, art, family, and info tech. I will definitely be looking at the book blogs, food blogs, home blogs and family blogs so I seem to fit well into popular mainstream blogging:).
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