Saturday, December 30, 2006

It's a weird world - Saddam, Miss Nevada, Dr Who, and Britney



Technorati Top Searches convey a really bizarre view of the world at the moment. The execution of Saddam Hussein dominates the searches with a number of variations. But still, the regulars are mixed in.

Miss Nevada : sex and misconduct
Youtube : seems like it's always there
Dr Who : sci-fi, geeky stuff
Britney : queen of white trash, what body part or body fluid is putting her in the news today?
Jobster : a little Web 2.0 never hurt anyone

What a way to end the year. And here is the one link of the execution that showed, almost, the real thing:

http://missnevadausa.blogspot.com/2006/12/unedited-uncensored-saddam-hussein.html

Talk about a weird place to find it. Eew.

Technorati Favorites widget using tagged Favorites

Thought some people might find this useful. A Technorati user
recently sent in a support request asking how they might replace
their blog roll with the http://technorati.com/account/favwidget.html
- Technorati Favorites Widget, but be able to scope the list to blogs
they had tagged in their favorites.

Here was my response:

This is a great request and totally doable. I love the fact that you
have embraced our Favorites feature and are using it to tag your
favorite blogs. Here
goes.

Per our instructions on http://technorati.com/account/favwidget.html,
you can
create a Favorites widget for the most recently updated blogs in your
Favorites
with:


<iframe src="http://widgets.technorati.com/faves/teendoc?t=blogs"
marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0,
0); padding: 0pt;" frameborder="0" height="400" scrolling="auto"
width="200"></iframe>


<iframe src="http://widgets.technorati.com/faves/teendoc?t=blogs"
marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0,
0); padding: 0pt;" frameborder="0" height="400" scrolling="auto"
width="200"></iframe>

However, we don't tell you how to do the same thing for a subset of
your blogs
that you have tagged. Let's say you wanted to list the most recently
updated
blogs you had tagged Fertility. It's quite simple. All you need to do
is chagne
the src= part of the iframe tag as follows:



<iframe src="http://widgets.technorati.com/faves/teendoc/tag/
Fertility?t=blogs" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="border:
1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt;" frameborder="0" height="400"
scrolling="auto" width="200"></iframe>

Note how I changed:

src="http://widgets.technorati.com/faves/teendoc?t=blogs"

to

src="http://widgets.technorati.com/faves/teendoc/tag/Fertility?t=blogs"

That's it.

Also, here is a short piece of HTML that, if you save to your PC and
open in a
browser will show you two different widgets with a header.

*** BEGIN HTML JUST BELOW ***




<h1>Favorites Blogroll with tag = Technorati</h1>

<iframe src="http://widgets.technorati.com/faves/dorion/tag/
Technorati?t=blogs" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="border:
1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt;" frameborder="0" height="400"
scrolling="auto" width="200"></iframe>

<h1>Favorites Blogroll with tag = Me</h1>

<iframe src="http://widgets.technorati.com/faves/dorion/tag/Me?
t=blogs" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" style="border: 1px solid rgb
(0, 0, 0); padding: 0pt;" frameborder="0" height="400"
scrolling="auto" width="200"></iframe>



*** END HTML JUST ABOVE ***

Geez, people just keep getting better and better


Doug has just made my day with this post, Thanks, Dorion Carroll and Technorati!

What's even better is that I had added Doug's blog to my Technorati Favorites and his kind post greeted me on my Home Page.




2007 is gonna be great! Thanks, Doug

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Nice feedback and help on Technorati Tag search

Douglas has put up a little example of how to do searches using tags on Technorati Tags. He also explains how to get an RSS feed.

Searching for Blog Posts with Technorati
in on influence and automation.

Thanks, Douglas.

Technorati Tags: ,

Tuesday, December 26, 2006