Technorati Schmechnorati
In the past, I've relied pretty heavily on Technorati's indexing service to give me some idea of how many referrerals I'm receiving from other weblogs and to show me the chain of discovery associated with a particular link I'm planning to post.
However, their service has become increasingly unreliable over the past couple of months, and I stopped receiving pings from them altogether about 8 weeks ago. I sent off an e-mail to their "support" last month explaining the problem and the steps I've taken to attempt to verify that it's not due to a pilot error on my side, but have received nothing back other than an autoreply. I'm not impressed.
UPDATE: apparently, I'm not the only weblog being spurned by Technorati for reasons unknown (thanks, Gary)
So the upshot is that I'd like to find a similar indexing service and give Technorati the boot. I want one with a decent search feature, and am considering blogsnow. I'd be happy to entertain any other suggestions.
In other webloggy news, I had my heaviest traffic week ever here thanks to a couple of nice referrals from Boing Boing and Linkfilter. Thanks go out to my fellow ukulele-ist, Mark Frauenfelder for his consistent support of little D-tier, pop-cult bloggers like Yours Truly.
Finally, I will upgrade to MoveableType 3.121 sometime today, so you may experience some technical difficulties viewing this site if all doesn't go precisely as planned.