Technorati makes me technoCRABBY--14

I think I'm hitting overload. I registered with technorati and "claimed" my blog. Again I think a really really cool dissertation topic would be to examine the rhetoric of web 2.0 because language has really been affected by our "connecting" technologies-phone, video, Internet etc. I really found the visual "face" of technorati to be busy and hard to navigate. I searched popular blogs and found boing boing: a directory of wonderful things which I faved/hearted/whatever. I searched for blogs with learning 2.0 and found a blog called Musings from the Academy and added her to my del.icio.us network since she provided that on her sidebar. She describes herself as an Instructional Technology Specialist. Her tag cloud in d is voluminous (904) Education, English, History and Instructional Strategies, web 2.0., are some of the categories. The tag "graphicorganizers" appears to be the most "used." So what was the ? again. Oh now I'm trying to tag with technorati so I put html in my post--here goes
tagging
Now I am really at a loss since "ping" is what I need to aspire to. Is pinging what happens when your technorati tag and theirs shake hands? I am very unstrung....

Delicious 13

I fired up a del.icio.us account under the peaisforpurl username (I now have to maintain a googledoc that lists all my accounts, user names, passwords and email affiliations.)and tagged some websites--I must say that the word "tag" is now "overdetermined" and since I have an endless fascination with words let's play with the "tagging" phenomenon. On my tool bar now is an icon that looks like a luggage tag. This is what I click on to let my d account know that the current website will be added to my bookmarks. I can also apply "tags" or descriptors to that bookmark to add to the cloudbursts of descriptors in my account as well as to the mushrooming cloud in the tag universe of del.icio.us. I can look at all of my bookmarks with a particular tag. I can look at all of my tags. Tagging also refers to what graffiti artists do which to me means making an individual identifying and identifiable mark on the landscape's skin for all to see. When you play a game of tag you are tapping or striking someone b/c they have been "caught" and are now tagged "it" The "it" has a new identity and becomes tagger. Tag=identity, tag=designator, tag=marker but it does not replace anything, it is just a means of identifying sort of the way a catalog card used to do and hey that looks like a kind of paper tag and also if you are a scrapbooker (the bricks and mortar kind) then you know about the tag rage among scrapbookers-- So much of what this technology is promulgating is a kind of "cut and paste" universe. No judgment just an observation.