Technorati Flubs

Many people have been wondering what's up with Technorati (the free blog directory, search, and rating system.) Towards the end of September, Liz Dunn posted in their blog: Technorati Weblog: Interruptions Over!: "Interruptions Over! You probably noticed spotty service on Technorati over the last week or so. Technorati is in the last throws of a ..."

I surmise she meant throes (violent pangs of suffering.) Think "death throes."

Apparently the goofs weren't limited to spelling, because a few days later some of us received this message: Technorati Weblog: Technorati Spam? Actually, we just messed up. Sorry!: "Technorati Spam? Actually, we just messed up. Sorry! ... The only problem was that we messed up the link." Posted by Dave Sifry on October 2, 2006.

By then I was intrigued enough to follow the links to Technorati's weblog, only to find the navigational links at the bottom of posts were off by one. I tried monkeying with the URL, but the website didn't recognize the number of the post I was trying to find. It's fixed now and thankfully they didn't blast a message to all and sundry to announce it. If only I could remember the title of the post I wanted to read ...

[Please stand by. We're experiencing Technorati difficulties.]

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