Don’t Dismiss Technorati Just Yet…

Over the past year or so there have been a number of folks who have commented that Technorati has become irrelevant, but I still find their search/tag feeds to be among the most thorough and timely ways to pick up bits of info. For example: I blog about Portland, and so I subscribe to a Technorati feed for “portland” - it’s a very high-volume feed, but I can quickly scan the headlines for interesting bits.

And by my personal observations, it’s very fast. There have been several times where I’ve picked something up first via their tag feed, even when I’ve subscribed directly to the source blog. Granted that this is with either Google Reader or Newsgator, so it’s a server-side polling thing, but it still gets me the info quickly.