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Technorati–Shopping Is NOT Strategy

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Joining the Mainstream Are We?

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I’m starting to feel like I’m on Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live. As Sting would say Be still my beating heart. Another day, another 50 cents, and Peter Hirschberg is announcing another Technorati new deal. This time Technorati teams with Associated Press to connect you and me and 40 million bloggers to over 450 AP member websites. The new service began this morning. How will this help my life, my business, my brand? I just don’t see it.

Excuse me. Excuse me, please. Is this door number 3? Darn, I lose again. Yoohoo! I’m the little guy who uses your service. [Read more…]

Technorati — Hollywood and International

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Technorati and Paramount Classics

So much going on at Technorati these days, who can keep track of all of it? David Sifry has been signing his name a lot.

Yesterday, May 21 Peter Hirshberg announced on the Technorati Weblog an 18-month “relationship” that joins Technorati and Paramount Classics. The deal will connect up-to-the minute blog posts about a film’s content to each of Paramount’s film sites. The relationship launches with the site for the film, An Inconvenient Truth, a new movie about global warming. The documentary starring former Vice President Al Gore, opens in theaters beginning May 24. Its blog will provide live blogger commentary and feature posts from the Technorati index. The press release went out on May 18th.

Technorati and International Edelman PR

Today, Peter Hirshberg posts that Technorati and Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm, are announcing a relationship that’s all about supporting the international growth of the blogosphere. He goes on to say that Edelman will be providing full support for service to the international bloggers that are now such an important part of the Technorati index.

Whew! What relief! Janice Myint’s team has enough to do.

Mr. Hirshberg ends his post with this sentence.

Both of these developments are testimony to the incredible changes to media, marketing and communication that blogosphere is bringing about— and to the increasing global reach of these developments.

For the life of me, and for all of my years unraveling sentences as an editor, I don’t know what this sentence means.

I do know my link count has finally moved this morning — the first time in almost 4 weeks.

I don’t know what that means either.

Of course, hours and new links later — it’s stuck on the same new number. I guess that means that nothing’s changed. UPDATE: IT’S CHANGED AGAIN. That makes two times in one day.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Technorati Blog Cards

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Another Feature

Technorati has rolled out another new feature. It’s sort of like a baseball card for your blog. This is how it looks for Successful Blog.

Technorati Blog Card

To see yours, go to Blog Finder, type in your URL and click search. You’ll see your card and the latests posts indexed for your blog. It’s nice to be able to see whether our latest posts have made it into the index.

It’s a great feature, Mr. Sifry, but could we have a word over here? [Read more…]

Technorati Still Wonky

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It had to be this way on the day I get a link from a hero.

I can’t tell you about it because I’m saving it for a cool road rally thing for this weekend. That is if David Sifry and Janice Myint can get Technorati fixed by then.

If I lose this link, I will be very sad. I like heroes.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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It’s Not Your Blog, It’s Technorati

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Has Been for a Few Days

At this moment, the message is

Cannot Find Server

Guess our friends, Janice Myint, David Sifry, and their team are very busy.

No judgment just information.

On the other hand, on Thursdays, the Internet always seems to go haywire. Have you noticed that?

UPDATE: IT’S PARTWAY BACK, BUT THE LINK MARKERS AREN’T WORKING AND THE LINK COUNTS AREN’T RIGHT YET.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Blogtipping Day–Where’s Yours?

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Link Love Costs Nothing

Easton Ellsworth at Blogwire declared today official Blogtipping Day and I’m in. How about you? As
the song goes “Give a little bit . . .” Here’s how it works.

  • Choose three or more bloggers you admire and link to them,
  • List three reasons why you admire each one.
  • Then add a tip at the end.

That’s all there is to it.

Janice Myint

  • Janice is the best at her job. She knows what she’s doing.
  • Every email and message is filled with smiles and energy. I feel like a valued customer every time she talks to me.
  • She takes on big complaints as personal quest, and tackles them like a warrior.

Tip: Janice, be careful. The whole blogosphere is going to be proposing marriage to you, and trying to steal you away.

Jeremy Wright

  • Jeremy’s a great guy with a heart as big as the world.
  • He works hard, doing thousands of things, but never loses his humanity.
  • He makes things happen for other people and asks nothing in return.

Tip: Jeremy, don’t wear yourself out. We need you just as you are.

Brian Clark

  • Brian teaches me more about writing every time I read his blog.
  • He has been a friend to me beyond the call of duty.
  • I feel lucky to have him in my address book.

Tip: Brian, stop, breathe and look at what you’ve built. It’s fabulous.

That was fun. I hope I get time to do more before the day is over.

–ME “Liz” Strauss