This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004). This blog is one of the transitions for the new year. I've started it This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004). This blog is one This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004 sounds (already), old, scratched, a little battered, like my camera This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day, sunny, though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet, not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions, the passage of time, new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine, just out of the box, wheareas 2004

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Finding that perfect blog

10:37 AM Friday, September 9, 2005

[Technorati has a new feature: the Blog Finder]

Technorati is a company in the San Francisco Bay Area which has supported the blogosphere by providing search services for weblogs. Web search services like Google search the whole Internet, not just weblogs. Someone seeking their ideal blog on a specific topic is likely to be overwhelmed with too many hits if they use Google. Technorati not only searches keywords, such as "coffeeblog", it can search tags which will bring up photographs on Flickr and Buzznet as well as bookmarks on de.licio.us and Furl which have been given the same tag by readers.

But now Technorati has a new feature: the Blog Finder. Blog writers give their blogs specific tags which enables them to be located by readers. So far this feature has not been diluted by spammers, and I presume that Technorati will take steps to prevent such spamming. Thus, if you want to find a blog about cats, search Technorati's Blog Finder. (On the day I wrote this, there were 125 blogs about cats.) Be advised that most bloggers, like me, are interested in more than one topic.

Technorati has their own weblog, where Derek Powazek has written about this new feature. I have only met Derek once, but he keeps reappearing in my life through synchronicity. This weblog, Jonathan's Coffeeblog, was designed by me based on blog "wizard" software that Derek created for Eastgate, creator of the Tinderbox software that I use to write this blog. Later I met Derek's wife Heather while touring the DiRosa Preserve, an art collection in California's wine country. Derek and Heather publish a gorgeous (paper, hard-copy) photography magazine called JPG, and I met Derek himself at a meeting of the Bay Area Photobloggers, a photography website that's well worth a visit.

Thank you, Technorati, for your new Blog Finder feature, and thank you, Derek, for reporting on it.

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