Technorati is a very effective way to search for blogs of topical interest to you.
7.1 I searched for brain research under blog posts as well as tags and the directory.
There are 178 blogs that have something to do with the brain. There were 72 posts that referred to brain research. However, there were no tags for this. Also, it does not show up in the blog directory. Interestingly, the results are all different from each other. The tags have to do with what was posted in just the last month so I understand that one but not sure why it was not showing up in the blog directory when if I search for Blogs, I get 148. Hmmm.....
7.2 The popular tags are the popular ones for this last month. It was surprising to see what was on people's minds this past month:
These seem random:
Bacon, Remote Control Paper Airplane, Quantum Mechanics
These make some sense:
Apple and IOS7, The World Trade Center.
Very interesting regardless.
7.4 I think that tagging is practically a necessity considering the billions of websites and blogs that are out there. If you are a person who reads and researches a lot online, tagging will be so valuable. That way you won't have to hunt around for what you are looking for. it will be a time saver and the organization will be visually pleasing. The one disadvantage I can think of is that there are no "set" tags so there is no consistency for how people tag. However, I feel this will become a problem of the past as technology grows. For example, using suggested tags and further refinement.
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