{"id":944,"date":"2007-01-31T11:16:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/01\/31\/technorati-foot-shooting-again-wtf\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T16:16:45","slug":"technorati-foot-shooting-again-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/01\/31\/technorati-foot-shooting-again-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Technorati foot-shooting again: WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I saw Steve Rubel’s post<\/a> about Technorati launching a new buzz-tracking, Digg-like thing and the first thing I thought was “WTF?” I know that’s the name of it — or was, since it’s apparently been yanked now<\/a> — but I meant it in the original blogosphere\/instant messaging sense of “what the f**?” Among other things, why would Technorati bother trying to reproduce something like Digg this late in the game?<\/p>\n

Unlike some people<\/a>, I’m totally okay with the name (which apparently stands for “Where’s The Fire?”). It plays off the other meaning of WTF, which could add to the buzz, and I think it’s kind of funny. But why? And not just why launch something that appears to duplicate Digg — like dozens of other copycat sites, many of which use the Pligg open-source Digg platform — but why launch something that seems to have taken its servers down with it?<\/p>\n

After all, it’s not as though Technorati has been sailing along as smooth as glass. There continue to be regular system issues, unexplained and sudden down-time, complaints about technorati’s blog-ranking numbers and so on. As someone commented<\/a> at Darren Rowse’s Problogger: “How about they fix everything else that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s broken on their site before launching a new service?” A fair point.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

The site seems to have re-launched, with an explanation from Dave Sifry about how it works<\/a>. If I understand it correctly, it seems that Technorati is asking users to write an explanation of why a particular search topic or subject is important, and then other users can vote that explanation up or down.<\/a><\/p>\n

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So I saw Steve Rubel’s post about Technorati launching a new buzz-tracking, Digg-like thing and the first thing I thought was “WTF?” I know that’s the name of it — or was, since it’s apparently been yanked now — but I meant it in the original blogosphere\/instant messaging sense of “what the f**?” Among other … <\/p>\n

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