Blogging
Avi Siwa Blogs
I ran into Filipina FHM cover girl Avi Siwa at the gym yesterday. We talked a bit about her new business ventures, and the conversation turned to online branding. Turns out she owned her name’s domain, but hadn’t done anything with it yet.
Longtime readers may recall that when I first registered MikeAbundo.com, I redirected it to my old Blogspot account. That’s what I told her.
That’s exactly what she just did. Check out AviSiwa.com. It’s just a frame redirect to her Blogspot account, and she’s only been blogging since December, but it’s a start. Welcome to the blogosphere, Avi.
(Photo via Avi.)
Technorati Bans WordPress Gurus
Oh Technorati, how far you have fallen. Once a darling of bloggers who valued their blogs based on its algorithm, the blog search engine has fallen further and further into irrelevance in the face of Google Blog Search. First they arbitrarily cripple their archiving, and now they manually ban two top WordPress gurus from its top 100: Matt Mullenweg and Alex King. Why, you ask? Simple: Matt and Alex make a lot of cool stuff that earns them links. Apparently, the people at Technorati don’t think contributing valuable software to the community warrants any acknowledgment.
WordPress is the gold standard in blogging software. Since Technorati’s a blog search engine, it’s basically shooting itself in the face twice over. Nice work, guys. You just made Google’s job even easier. Wonder if this is some sort of petty revenge on WordPress for replacing Technorati with Google Blog Search in its default dashboard. I, for one, am never using Technorati again. From now on, Google Blog Search is my only blog search engine.
