The number of blogs that exists is overwhelming, but not surprising, considering how easy it is to start a blog. On the one hand, the ease with which one can start a blog is inspiring. Anyone can express themselves and have an open dialogue. On the other hand, this means that you have a lot of bad quality sites. Technorati helps us to maneuver this through this overwhelming world of blogs and user-generated content. It is also important to track and to study the web culture.

It is fascinating to see the top favorited blogs, top blogs and top searches. While it is not surprising that there are social networking sites listed in top searches, other searches seem more random, like london. It is slightly surprising to see Engadget as the top blog. I know electronic gadgets are popular, but I somehow thought that it was my "little secret" for learning about nifty tech toys. Now I know better...