Technorati (I'm the master of procrastination)

What is Technorati?

Technorati is a search engine focusing on "citizen media" (i.e.. Blogs, photos, videos, voting)
Technorati started as search engine for blogs however, and is still what it is mainly used for today. media.”

I believe Technorati is mainly different to Google because of the focuses of the two programs. Technorati focuses on searching for blogs and other "citizen media", whereas Google focuses on the web as a whole, with an option of searching by type (Images, Videos, Groups, News)

Rank and Authority:

My current Rank is 845,545 which is a step up from over 2,000,000!
And my authority is 6.
Rank: A Technorati Ranking relates to the number of sources that point to a particular weblog relative to other weblogs. The more sources referencing a weblog, the higher the Technorati ranking (From Technorati FAQ).
In other words, the more people that know your blog, link, to your blog or interact with your blog the higher your rank.
Authority: Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has (From Technorati Blog). Therefore the more people that link to you the higher your Authority, (and im guessing that your rank increases too).

Technorati’s 100 most popular blogs:

Here are some notes and screenshots I made on two of Technorati's top 100 blogs

Good Aesthetics
Seth Godin's Blog - Screenshot and notes

Bad Aesthetics
Boing Boing - Screenshot and notes