Train, Keep on Rolling

Apr

23rd

I was invited aboard the Technorati Train by Char at Essential Keystrokes. (Char blogs about design and marketing, and she's written some great stuff, be sure to check her out.)

If you haven't seen this meme making the rounds, the idea is to build your number of "favorites" on Technorati and discover some new blogs in the process. I'm usually a bit hesitant to jump on the latest blog meme, but I find this one appealling for a few reasons:

It brings some attention to Technorati, a site which I use and like, but seems lately to have fallen by the wayside as Google has jumped into blog search and MyBlogLog has rolled out better community features.
This widespread "gaming" of the Technorati's Top Favorited Blogs list will hopefully nudge them into improving their community features instead of wasting their developers talents on yet another Digg clone.

The rules for participating are below, but first, a brief introduction to the 3 blogs I'm tagging:

J David Macor blogs about web design and tutorials. Don't forget to check out his collection of beautifully done valid XHTML templates.
Sean Dinner is a design student writing about blogging and graphic design. And while it may be a bit off-topic, his Day in the Life of a Pizza Delivery Boy posts are great, and will make you feel bad about undertipping for your pie.
The Antman at Cre8Buzz blogs about word-of-mouth marketing. Word has it that Cre8Buzz will be launching their Word-Of-Mouth Engine very soon, head over to their home page if you'd like to be notified when it goes live.

Those are my adds; all of them deserve a place in your faves (and your feedreader) in my opinion. Read on for the rules and the full list.

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Here are the rules:

1) Write a short introduction paragraph about what how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.

2) COPY the Rules and ENTIRE List below and post it to your own blog. You may want to change the titles of the blogs to help avoid duplicate content issues, and increase the amount of keywords your site can accessible for.. Just don't change the actual links to the blogs.

3) Take My New Faves and move them into the The Original Faves list.

4) Add 3 new blogs that you've added to your Technorati Favorites to the My New Faves section. Remember to also add the "Fave Me" link next to the blogs you add. (i.e. http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn &add=http://www.yourfavesdomain.com)

5) Add Everyone on this list to your Technorati Favorites List by clicking on "Fave This." Those who want good karma will fave you back. If not, you will for sure get the benefits of faves from the bloggers who continue this list after you.

My New Faves

The Original List

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And thanks to ReformatThis for the train graphic used above (used by permission, of course).

by Kevin Henney -

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santaram wrote:

Hi thanks for adding my blog into your technorati favorites and please add my blog in the original list

(Comment added Tue, 04/24/2007 - 00:15)

Char wrote:

Thanks for keeping this train rolling. It is always fun to discover new blogs by way of other's recommendations.

(Comment added Tue, 04/24/2007 - 04:56)

Bobs wrote:

Thanks for the Special Thanks!

I design little graphics for my posts like this all the time (well design merge graphics I should say).

If ever useful, I always post at the bottom that they can be used. If you get tagged for the MyBlogLog Bandwagon, you should check out my site again - have another good graphic there!

(Comment added Wed, 04/25/2007 - 10:57)

Jan Pieter Marbun wrote:

Thanks for the add, had done at mine..keep in touch.

(Comment added Thu, 04/26/2007 - 03:10)

Deborah wrote:

Hi there,

I stumbled across your site from another listing you as part of the Technorati favs exchange.

I've already added you to my favs, and linked to you from my post on this.

You can see your listing here if you like to:
http://www.fastlanetransport.ca/blog/technorati-favorites-exchange/blogs...

My username is fastfastlane, and link to my fav is
http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.fastlanetranspo...

Cheers!

(Comment added Sun, 04/29/2007 - 21:54)

Michael wrote:

Hi, Just wanted to let to know that I faved you at Technorati for The Technorati Train Meme. You can check out my blog at http://mikesmoneyrants.blogspot.com

(Comment added Tue, 05/01/2007 - 19:06)

Webaction wrote:

Hello,

I wanted to share with you my new Project idea,
it is called Technorati Rollercoaster Exchange,
where I tried to improve some flaws with Train.
Come and see for yourself. If you like it,
spread the word. Thanks.

(Comment added Tue, 05/22/2007 - 16:08)

Angie wrote:

I'm coming back to this older post, because I am wondering how you feel about Technorati now that it has implemented some changes in the raking system they use. Is it still as important as it used to be?

(Comment added Mon, 06/11/2007 - 11:44)

Health Club Fanatic wrote:

I think Technorati is a fad, like MySpace. In 2-3 years it will be gone. The big guys will come out with something better and just crush it.

(Comment added Tue, 06/19/2007 - 05:32)

Justin wrote:

They have something like this for Alexa ratings and personally, I just don't see it helping all that much. Its just like anything else, it will be here today, but in a little while it will be gone.

(Comment added Wed, 07/18/2007 - 06:56)