Technorati
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.
Even Without Splogs, the Blogosphere Grows
Where the people go, the spammers go. Technorati’s efforts to separate the blogosphere from the splogosphere result in a more realistic, but still impressive picture of the rise of the blogosphere. They’re now tracking more than 57 million blogs, doubling every 235 days.
In its simplest form, blogging is as easy as filling a Web form. Imagine if only ten percent of the one billion people on the Internet today started blogging in some way, shape, or form. Suddenly, that 57 million number sounds like only beginning. Even a nineteenth-century prince could see it coming.
Check out David Sifry’s Q3 2006 State of the Blogosphere report.
