Technorati

I never realized the blogosphere was so large or that it was growing so fast. And no, the explosion isn't entirely due to all of us engaged in 23 Things! "Learning 2.0" appeared in over 4000 blog posts when I searched this morning, but just under 300 blogs came up using this search term in Technorati's blog directory. Wonder what the totals will be a week from today?
I did find some surprises when comparing top favorited blogs to top blogs to top searches. The top ten faves were largely concerned with technology, but top searches also included the topics of diet and weight, proving that some human concerns never change. There was also a healthy dose of social networking and a not-so-healthy dose of pop culture (Britney Spears? C'mon, we can do better than that...) in evidence among the top searches, as well as interest in international news (the protests in Myanmar). The No. 1 favorited blog, BoingBoing.net, must be an enormous hit. Best Group Blog Award winner at the 2006 Bloggies? Can you imagine the ceremony? Maybe there's a Meez statuette out there akin to the golden Oscar.