{"id":27,"date":"2007-12-10T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T22:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=27"},"modified":"2007-12-10T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T22:24:46","slug":"w00t-w00t-just-claimed-my-blog-on-technorati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2007\/12\/10\/w00t-w00t-just-claimed-my-blog-on-technorati\/","title":{"rendered":"w00t, w00t: just &#8220;claimed&#8221; my blog on Technorati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and in the two minutes from when I signed up until I checked the blog&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogs\/www.talesfromthe.net%2Fjon\">summary page<\/a>, its rank went from 4,446,976 to 3,053,157 &#8212; at this rate, I should be top 10 by dinner time!<\/p>\n<p>Authority = 1 for now, but no doubt once everybody starts crosslinking and adding to their Technorati faves, it&#8217;ll no doubt soar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/faves?sub=addfavbtn&amp;add=http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/pix\/fave\/btn-fave2.png\" alt=\"adding to their technorati favorites\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The language they use &#8212; &#8220;claim your blog now&#8221; &#8212; is interesting.  From a marketing perspective I can see that this is a great framing: they&#8217;re positioning themselves as helping me take better advantage of an asset I already have; and the analogy to frontier times and staking claims to land or mineral rights is a powerful one.  There&#8217;s also a subtle implication that my ownership of the blog in some way requires their (or somebody&#8217;s) ratification or validation &#8212; and of course agreeing to their terms of service.<\/p>\n<p>The interface is straightforward enough, and you get a nice tag cloud (although their index and hence the tag cloud doesn&#8217;t include any of my posts from the last three days).\u00c2\u00a0 Anyhow, it feels like a steep in becoming more real.\u00c2\u00a0 w00t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and in the two minutes from when I signed up until I checked the blog&#8217;s summary page, its rank went from 4,446,976 to 3,053,157 &#8212; at this rate, I should be top 10 by dinner time! Authority = 1 for now, but no doubt once everybody starts crosslinking and adding to their Technorati faves, it&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[50,347],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-social-computing","tag-blogging","tag-tags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}