I enjoyed reading Jason's post about Technorati and del.icio.us, partly because I have a lot of the same reactions to both of these services. I just find it all too much to keep up with and know that most pages I bookmark I'll probably never return to.
In addition to that, I'm still standing on the edge of the Web 2.0 ocean occasionally dipping my toes in to test the waters. I'm not ready to take the plunge for a variety of reasons, privacy not being the least of them. In the case of del.icio.us, the convenience of having my bookmarks available from everywhere doesn't quite outweigh my fear that I will lose access to them if they are stored on a third party site. I'd rather be without them sometimes than potentially be without them all the time.
But all that having been said, these sites are definitely useful. I think the biggest need Technorati serves is to make information about current events easily found, even as the event is still in progress. Google web search, because of the way the Google database is compiled, just can't keep up. (Note that there is a Google blog search, which works just like Technorati. I wonder how many people use that?)
In fact, in working through the exercises in the del.icio.us section of this project, I found a blog post that describes using Technorati to find interesting information about the recent explosion of posts containing the code to break HD-DVD encryption. I thought that was a timely example of how del.icio.us and Technorati can work together.
