As I was playing with Pandora, IMing with Jim, and another friend (not blogging, yet ... I know the horror) I saw ping up on my GDS2 Web Clips this announcement from Michael on TechCrunch—TechCrunch » Technorati Releases Major New Feature—and Josh posting on BBC—Business Blog Consulting- Technorati Launches Blog Finder. Two things here. One is that the Technorati announcement is cool, but cooler is the fact that I could react to this news faster than before because GDS2 is tracking these sites for me. A little digging and I found Niall's post (makes sense, eh?)
Okay Blog Finder. This feature lets you browse through blogs by genre, essentially. Here is an example on my favourite topic—Technorati Blog Finder- professional blogging—oh yeah, I'm number one in authority. Why it says this both hasn't been updated for 141 days, I have no idea. Regardless, while Michael thinks it needs more tweaking and work, I think it has a lot of potential. The tweaking is going to come from blog owners tagging and describing them and their blogs. For example, I don't think we've claimed the Qumana Blog yet. Maybe as CBO, I should. This is the next step in helping people finding blogs on topics they are interested in not blogs. Here's a good example. I write for Biopeer.com so I'm always looking for good blog covering bio-science and research. I've done some quick searches on biotech, biology, and science, and nothing leaped out at me, well except another blog I need to work on claiming.So is Blog Finder perfect? Nope. 
We need to all claim our blogs, tag/describe our blogs, and Technorati really has to work on their database. This blog has been updated way more that in the last 141 days!
Baby steps. Baby steps.
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