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An interesting look into how Technorati optimizes blogs

Technorati has the brand, the nice people, the cool formats... But where have they put reliability ?

Kramer is a plugin that will add inbound links to a post on your weblog as Pingbacks. What this means is that when a post in blog A links to a post in blog B, blog B will find the inbound link and add it as a pingback or a general comment, without the need for the author of the post on blog A to send a ping to blog B. The way it finds the new links is by searching Technorati (http://www.technorati.com) for all new inbound to a particular post and also (in the upcoming version) by analyzing and verifying incoming referrers. What this means is that pingback/traceback/trackback and other post-pinging tools are no longer required, as all links to a post will be found (eventually) and shown as Pingbacks. To show links to the main weblog, or to other pages in general, a function called kramer_inbound() is provided. It can be used in Wordpress templates to display a list of the latest inbound links to that page. It is usually included in the sidebar of a blog and can be fully configured via the Kramer administration interface. A planned feature is the ability for the plugin to inform Technorati of new referrers, i.e. other sites or blogs linking to your blog. This means that Technorati will be kept up-to-date about sites linking to your site.

Ban the Blogroll? do blogrolls "form a barrier to new voices..,"?

For a company that relies on aggregating content by scraping full posts from almost 8 million blogs, vetting their employees' personal writing seems like a curious

Tom Coates on mixed feeds : "I really think (hotlinks) needs only to be abstracted into a more generic service to take over the world."

Tom Coates on mixed feeds : "I really think (hotlinks) needs only to be abstracted into a more generic service to take over the world."