Hello Technorati!

19 Responses to Hello Technorati!

1. Maxine Clarke says:

   5 April 2008 at 20:18

   I’ve just spent half an hour on a Saturday evening making Nature Network blogs “favourites” on Technorati – thanks to your post!
   (I am pretty tired actually, having been up since 4 am taking daughter to school trip meeting-point, so I needed something mindless to do!)
2. Richard P. Grant says:

   6 April 2008 at 01:14

   Aw, feel the love.
3. Bob O'Hara says:

   6 April 2008 at 06:40

   I guess I should thank whoever put the little button up that sent us to Technorati to register.
   Now I’ve got to go and add a few favourites…
4. Richard P. Grant says:

   6 April 2008 at 07:33

   Gosh you guys are SO “last year”: http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg/2007/06/05/technorati .
5. Richard P. Grant says:

   6 April 2008 at 07:34

   Interesting. I got smart quotes.
6. Bob O'Hara says:

   6 April 2008 at 07:47

   So have I. They have even combed their hair, and put a parting in it:
   ” ”
7. Henry Gee says:

   6 April 2008 at 09:13

   What precisely is a technorati? Can I play it on my betamax?
8. Bob O'Hara says:

   6 April 2008 at 10:20

   It’s a technoratus, of course.
9. Maxine Clarke says:

   6 April 2008 at 10:24

   It is the main blog index website, Henry – though many think it has had its day (Google blog search gets more traffic now), it used to be “all powerful” in the blogosphere as it ranks blogs by its algorithm of linkiness.
   Whether or not Technorati is old hat, it seems to me that the thing to do is for all NN bloggers to make all other NN blogs “favourites” as this will up the Technorati ranking and general visibility of N Network.
   Matt posted a while back about setting up NN on Technorati, that may be the URL Richard has provided above but it isn’t displaying properly in my browser so can’t tell you for sure.
10. Henry Gee says:

    6 April 2008 at 16:46

    How do I embed html in a blog post so that the technorati spiders can spot my blog? I have hung lavender from the windows; chained Beelzebun Demon Bunny of DOOM to the radiator; and chalked a pentagram on the floor – but nothing has happened. Nothing. Not even the tiniest hint of ectoplasm. I must say it’s all most disappointing.
11. Bob O'Hara says:

    6 April 2008 at 17:16

    Henry, it seems they have. They haven’t seen your lost t-shirts (but then, neither have you), so perhaps they were watching until the lavender put them off.
12. Henry Gee says:

    6 April 2008 at 17:56

    Aha – so I see. But it’s all about ‘laying a claim’ to your blog, and the technoratuses ask one to insert a slug of code into a blog post, and that’s what I don’t understand.
13. Bronwen Dekker says:

    6 April 2008 at 18:12

    Henry: For me the slug of code was:
    (less than sign)a href=”http://technorati.com/claim/f3qpwhvx7b” rel=”me”>Technorati Profile
    where (less then sign) is actually just
14. Henry Gee says:

    6 April 2008 at 18:19

    Thanks Bronwen – I think that might do the trick. Now then. Do I cut the blue wire, or the red wire? Thinks. The blue one. No, perhaps it’s the red one. On the other hand, it could still be the blue one. Or was it the red one? Or was it both at once? And how did that green wire get here? How do I work this? Who put the benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s ovaltine? What becomes of the broken-hearted? Why do fools fall in love? Who put the bop in the bop-shoowop-shoowop? Ah, I remember now. It’s the blue one.
15. Henry Gee says:

    6 April 2008 at 18:51

    It was the blue wire. God, that was close.
16. Graham Steel says:

    6 April 2008 at 18:56

    Yikes.
    I used the Tartan wire and got this
17. Henry Gee says:

    6 April 2008 at 18:59

    You were very brave. I didn’t mention that I had two tartan wires – one was Campbell and the other MacLeod. As I’m a distant relation of the McGoldstein clan, I thought they were best left untouched.
18. Graham Steel says:

    6 April 2008 at 20:29

    “Two” – blimey,
    Literally shocking….
    Spent the afternoon at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
    Having resided here for > 10 years now, I have at last found out the History of these here parts.
    I be much more interested in Geo that Hist you see but what I learned today was most fascinating.
19. Cath Ennis says:

    7 April 2008 at 17:33

    Ah Graham, you’re making me nostalgic. I used to live by the Botanic Gardens and my flatmate and I spent many a Sunday doing the riverside walk through to Kelvingrove, having a quick look around the museum, and going for a pint and some chips on the Byres Road. Good times…

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