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• Date:

  Saturday, 05 Apr il 2008 - 20:18 GMT

  Maxine Clarke said:

  I’ve just spent half an hour on a Saturday evening making Nature Network blogs “favourites” on Technorati – thanks to your post!
  (I am pretty tired actually, having been up since 4 am taking daughter to school trip meeting-point, so I needed something mindless to do!)

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 01:14 GMT

  Richard Grant said:

  Aw, feel the love.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 06:40 GMT

  Bob O'Hara said:

  I guess I should thank whoever put the little button up that sent us to Technorati to register.

  Now I’ve got to go and add a few favourites…

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 07:33 GMT

  Richard Grant said:

  Gosh you guys are SO “last year”: http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg/2007/06/05/technorati .

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 07:34 GMT

  Richard Grant said:

  Interesting. I got smart quotes.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 07:47 GMT

  Bob O'Hara said:

  So have I. They have even combed their hair, and put a parting in it:

  ” “

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 09:13 GMT

  Henry Gee said:

  What precisely is a technorati? Can I play it on my betamax?

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 10:20 GMT

  Bob O'Hara said:

  It’s a technoratus, of course.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 10:24 GMT

  Maxine Clarke said:

  It is the main blog index website, Henry – though many think it has had its day (Google blog search gets more traffic now), it used to be “all powerful” in the blogosphere as it ranks blogs by its algorithm of linkiness.

  Whether or not Technorati is old hat, it seems to me that the thing to do is for all NN bloggers to make all other NN blogs “favourites” as this will up the Technorati ranking and general visibility of N Network.

  Matt posted a while back about setting up NN on Technorati, that may be the URL Richard has provided above but it isn’t displaying properly in my browser so can’t tell you for sure.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 16:46 GMT

  Henry Gee said:

  How do I embed html in a blog post so that the technorati spiders can spot my blog? I have hung lavender from the windows; chained Beelzebun Demon Bunny of DOOM to the radiator; and chalked a pentagram on the floor – but nothing has happened. Nothing. Not even the tiniest hint of ectoplasm. I must say it’s all most disappointing.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 17:16 GMT

  Bob O'Hara said:

  Henry, it seems they have. They haven’t seen your lost t-shirts (but then, neither have you), so perhaps they were watching until the lavender put them off.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 17:56 GMT

  Henry Gee said:

  Aha – so I see. But it’s all about ‘laying a claim’ to your blog, and the technoratuses ask one to insert a slug of code into a blog post, and that’s what I don’t understand.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 18:12 GMT

  Bronwen Dekker said:

  Henry: For me the slug of code was:

  (less than sign)a href=”http://technorati.com/claim/f3qpwhvx7b” rel=”me”>Technorati Profile

  where (less then sign) is actually just <

  Which I changed to:

  “Technorati Profile”(colon)http://technorati.com/claim/f3qpwhvx7b

  where (colon) is just : (as usual!!)

  to make

  Technorati Profile

  which I put into a new post. This worked for me. It did not seem to work when I put it into an old post!! How annoying. :)

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 18:19 GMT

  Henry Gee said:

  Thanks Bronwen – I think that might do the trick. Now then. Do I cut the blue wire, or the red wire? Thinks. The blue one. No, perhaps it’s the red one. On the other hand, it could still be the blue one. Or was it the red one? Or was it both at once? And how did that green wire get here? How do I work this? Who put the benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s ovaltine? What becomes of the broken-hearted? Why do fools fall in love? Who put the bop in the bop-shoowop-shoowop? Ah, I remember now. It’s the blue one.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 18:51 GMT

  Henry Gee said:

  It was the blue wire. God, that was close.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 18:56 GMT

  Graham Steel said:

  Yikes.

  I used the Tartan wire and got this

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 18:59 GMT

  Henry Gee said:

  You were very brave. I didn’t mention that I had two tartan wires – one was Campbell and the other MacLeod. As I’m a distant relation of the McGoldstein clan, I thought they were best left untouched.

• Date:

  Sunday, 06 Apr il 2008 - 20:29 GMT

  Graham Steel said:

  “Two” – blimey,

  Literally shocking….

  Spent the afternoon at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

  Having resided here for > 10 years now, I have at last found out the History of these here parts.

  I be much more interested in Geo that Hist you see but what I learned today was most fascinating.

• Date:

  Monday, 07 Apr il 2008 - 17:33 GMT

  Cath Ennis said:

  Ah Graham, you’re making me nostalgic. I used to live by the Botanic Gardens and my flatmate and I spent many a Sunday doing the riverside walk through to Kelvingrove, having a quick look around the museum, and going for a pint and some chips on the Byres Road. Good times…