I've spent a frustrating hour or so trying to figure out Technorati. I was able to sign up and "claim" my blog quite easily, although I don't really know what the point of that is! Actually, if my blog was something that I was hoping to really get the word out for, this might be a useful thing. Since mine is a pretty amateurish effort, I don't think it makes much difference.
I watched the little video introduction to Technorati, which was made several years ago, and I suspect it's very out-of-date. I didn't see the colors or the topics anywhere on the signed out or signed in home pages, and also couldn't find the little hearts which are supposed to make it easy to "favorite" a blog.
I searched for some of my favorite blogs, and found them, with pages where I could write a review. I also found my own blog! However, in searching for my favorite blogs, most of what I found were posts by other bloggers, referring to those blogs.
One of the searches I did, was for The Yarn Harlot. My first search yielded nothing but references in other blogs to that blog, or the author of that blog. (It also provided some links to videos of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, who is The Yarn Harlot, and that is cool!) Trying to limit the search to blogs, instead of posts, gave me zero results. Then I remembered that probably the address for the blog had the word "yarnharlot" instead of words, "yarn" and "harlot." Of course that was the case, and I found the blog, which amazingly enough has no reviews on Technorati. This leads me to think that Technorati probably is more geared to technical or professional bloggers, than to hobby or arts blogs.
In the end, I've decided that Technorati is a good way to search for what bloggers are saying about other blogs. Kind of a big endless circle of a search... I don't think I'll be doing much with it!
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