Technorati Hates Me
Every day, five or six thousand social-networking, blogosphere-trotting, long-tailing web sites are created. All of them with a really great, new idea that combines RSS with AJAX and plans to stay in Beta forever. Out of all of those, a few are really cool and useful - and Technorati is definitely one of them.
Technorati tracks blogs and the discussions, reactions, and responses that bounce from blog to blog via the simple mechanism of who is linking to who. It also collects tags and allows you to search the mass of blogs for posts that might be relevant to your query. Bloggers can “claim” their own blog and use some surprisingly fun tools to see who is talking about them. Some people have even been abandoning the whole trackback system in favor of Technorati.
And apparently, Technorati hates me.