Technorati
I decided I’d try to get authorized on Technorati, no real reason to decide to do this other than I was browsing and it fell into my “hey that would be neat” category. Their process looks extremely easy and involves three steps:
- Create Account
- Get Code to put in blog post
- Click a button to validate it
Unfortunately I don’t seem to be technically skilled enough to get it to work. I’ll have you know I’ve filled out web forms and posted entries successfully before. I find it annoying there is an option called “2. Choose Claim Method” in which there is only one claim method. If there is only one damn way to do this then don’t make it sound like you have engineered some behind the scenes marvel which does it in a variety of ways. So surprisingly I choose the “Post Claim” method and make my post here on my blog and make sure it’s visible. Back to Technorati and there is now a button to “Release the Spiders”, I realize since links to my blog currently appear in Technorati they are already spidering my site and this is another bullshit injected step. Being the daring person that I am, I decide to hit the button. Low and behold the message I get back says that it can’t find the code in my page, which of course I can find in my page and anyone with a web browser will see it in my page. My quick half-assed perusal through their FAQ gave me the impression that this method of authentication might not be working anymore, which I guess means their step 2 heading should be changed to “2. Be annoyed while we put your through this invalid claim method”. If it is working, my guess is that they have some sort of backend cache and a version of my page they are hitting rather than actually making a request to the page, when I was supposedly prompting them to go out and do so at the click of a button earlier. At this point I’ve surpassed my “hey that would be neat” threshold and I’m starting to get into FAQs and mentally reverse engineering their system. HALT, this is way more effort than I should be putting into this.
BTW – Five minutes later and I’ve installed a wordpress plugin to do all those damn “Digg This” type icons and links.