Technorati Profile for M. David Peterson (mdavidx5)
This is a straight swipe of some of the CSS and the source markup sitting behind my Technorati profile. In reading a recent Tim Bray post I noticed a link to the Technorati "Kitchen". Had an interesting appeal to it, and for good reason... One of the current items "in the oven" is Technorati Explore which allows you to see who's getting the most attention for any particular tag or keyword search combination based on the number of links to that post (if I am understanding things correctly... not sure that I am as there are a TON of my posts included in the first few returned pages of the search for "XSLT" and as far as I an tell no direct links to them at the present time. So, I'm guessing anyway, this more thank likely means that when there are no links back to any particular post then it would seem likely that it would default to the next "ranking" mechanism, which I assume would be the total links to this blog in particular that are then weighed (again, I'm assuming) against some sort of keyword algorithm to determine how much value can be placed on the content of my site, or any other site, for a particular keyword or phrase. Its obvious something similar to this is in place behind the scenes if you view the ranked listings of blogs that claim a certain keyword... you will often find a blog in which has several hundred link backs that has a lower ranking than one with quite a few less, but, more than likely, a higher link quality rank for that particular claimed keyword.
I guess how its implemented is really not that important, especially given the fact that I have no clue how they do it, nor would I assume they would ever make that information public knowledge. So setting this aside and looking at the coolness factor instead, take a look at the latest feature that I noticed after searching the Explorer for "XSLT" and clicking on the bio of someone else to notice they've recently added a new feature to each profile. Using my own profile as an example, here's how Technorati is terming this new feature:
The cloud:
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