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Technorati Falling

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I like Techorati and I suppose that someday it might be useful again. Perhaps after everyone else stops using it because of persistently receiving error messages like:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.technorati.com/search/real url removed/
The following error was encountered:
* Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request.
Your cache administrator is noc@technorati.com.
Generated Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:10:30 GMT by www.technorati.com (squid/2.5.STABLE7)

Or the frequent “We are experiencing a heavy load please try again later” messages, the reported links randomly changing from query to query, or it not showing all of your recent links, taking forever to get to the 2nd page of links and ….
I really do like Technorati…

The No-Comments Guy Comments

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Just because….
In addition to being a thoughtful and interesting writer on many topics Will Baude is noted for his dislike of comments and does not have them on Crescat Scententia.
But he can’t resist writing them elsewhere:

I have been posting too much in the comments of other blogs lately; unfortunately, I don’t have a script that would automatically track all of my comments all over the web onto one page.

He was looking for that script last year:

Still, it would be nice if there were simple software that let a roaming blogger automatically have a sidebar on his blog that said something like: “These are the recent comments I have made on other weblogs…” with relevant links.

Seems to me that this would be pretty easy to accomplish with Blogrolling or some other link list tool. And, I for one, would go check out some some of Will’s comments.
However, I think Will once suggested something like this: if a post is worth commenting on it warrants a post on your own blog (which the first link above kind of represents…).