At the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference last week, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg threw around some interesting numbers and provided some cautionary advice to corporate bloggers.
The interesting statistic he provided is that WordPress supports more than 2.5 million blogs. That’s a huge number, but it doesn’t distinguish between corporate bloggers and personal bloggers. [...]

Technorati is a great blogsearch.   There, I said it.  I like Technorati.  However, Technorati has hit some bad spots of late.  They’ve lost employees, been overrun by splogs, and have had some recent acquisition deals go bad.
But, they just got substantial funding, so all is good for Technorati for the time being, I suppose.
Blog search [...]

You’ve seen the term splog, but do you know what it means? 
A splog is defined in the blogosphere at spam+blog.  Here are some common splog characteristics that you need to avoid:

Unreadable Keyword UsageTry not to go crazy with the keywords.  Yes they are important, but not important enough to get yourself banned by Google [...]

After Monday’s Technorati story, and the latest gripes, Technorati is feeling the heat of their users:
Randy: I’m asking for zero new features. All I want is the existing features to actually work. Without my results being infested with splogs. Without bogus results from months past. You know, current non-spammy results.
Bloglines as well is weathering a [...]

Randy, at the RSS Blog, has more info on Technorati’s Performance of late. While Technorati says response time is down:
David Sifry: Since beginning our infrastructure improvements, Technorati’s uptime has improved significantly. [cut] According to GrabPerf,
even while our overall traffic has increased, our response times have
consistently decreased. [cut] The index is over 3 years old, [...]