Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Technorati & Flickr
Have just started using Technorati - a web application that allows you to tag any blog posts you put up. It allows people to easily see who is putting up stuff on certain topics, and allows you to see who is the most authorative person on that topic - for instance go to technorati and search for the emerging church and you will see that TSK and Jonny Baker are the two most authorative voices - a pretty good example I think.
To add tags to your posts from blogger you will need to be using Firefox 1.5 and then install the greasemonkey plugin and then this script. This will allow you to add tags into each post. So if we post a series of blog entrys on nu monasticism and search using that term at technorati you can see how else is talking about it. You can also subscribe to a search term as an RSS feed - which is very handy if you want to keep in on a particular conversation. I subscribe to the emerging church stream and about 20-30 posts go up every day in it.
I has also started using Flickr, a photo archiving facility. It allows you to upload photos in groups and add tags as you do so. You can also add friends easily and, again, using search terms subscribe to RSS feeds that give you the latest pics on any tag name or RSS feeds from any of your friends pics. All very cool. I have added a link to my Flickr pics on the side bar, if you get an account let me know and I will add you in.
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Have just started using Technorati - a web application that allows you to tag any blog posts you put up. It allows people to easily see who is putting up stuff on certain topics, and allows you to see who is the most authorative person on that topic - for instance go to technorati and search for the emerging church and you will see that TSK and Jonny Baker are the two most authorative voices - a pretty good example I think.
To add tags to your posts from blogger you will need to be using Firefox 1.5 and then install the greasemonkey plugin and then this script. This will allow you to add tags into each post. So if we post a series of blog entrys on nu monasticism and search using that term at technorati you can see how else is talking about it. You can also subscribe to a search term as an RSS feed - which is very handy if you want to keep in on a particular conversation. I subscribe to the emerging church stream and about 20-30 posts go up every day in it.
I has also started using Flickr, a photo archiving facility. It allows you to upload photos in groups and add tags as you do so. You can also add friends easily and, again, using search terms subscribe to RSS feeds that give you the latest pics on any tag name or RSS feeds from any of your friends pics. All very cool. I have added a link to my Flickr pics on the side bar, if you get an account let me know and I will add you in.
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