Exercise #9 Technorati -Joy

I claimed my blog on Technorati and found that I could get straight into my blog from the Technorati site. I enjoyed watching the videocast and felt confident that I would be able to complete the exercise of searching Blog posts, tags and the Blog Directory. However when I went to the Front page of Technorati, I found that the dropdown menu shown in the video didn't seem to be available. Perhaps I needed to join Technorati for this to happen? But no, even after I had joined and claimed my blog there didnt seem to be any dropdown menu where it had been shown on the videoclip. I need help!! I enjoyed looking around the Technorati sight and am going to create a watchlist -now that I have claimed my blog I will be able to do this.

Exercise #7.2 Technorati, Syndec 8.com, Topix

I had a look at all three of these RSS sites. Syndec8 looks very complicated to register -I think their front page would discourage all but the most confident of computer users from joining. Technorati had predominantly material relating to the American political scene, which was current and interesting given the upcoming elections. Topix had New Zealand content which appealed to me -I was most likely to register with Topix. I wanted to change my selected topics on RSS but despite detailed searching of the site, I could find no option to delete or reselect the topics I would like searched for. Could someone help me with instructions on how to change my selected topics?