rare pattern thoughts in a blog

Reading my earlier post in the light of day, I see that it comes off much snarkier than I had intended. I did not mean to imply dark or nefarious reasons for the slow tracking, and really wanted to plug Technorati's new faves list as a way to promote BlogHer.

As mobilejones notes in a comment to my post on BlogHer, BlogHer is being tracked very well by other search engines and trackers. So perhaps I'm being unfair to Technorati in the title. Still, they have the brand recognition, so we -- I -- want to figure this problem out.

The BlogHer listing is now only slightly out of date. This could be because of my manual pinging of Technorati last night -- perhaps there's a couple-hour delay these days.

Alas, manual pinging has done nothing for the plight of the pingVision site. I just added rare pattern to my faves list, and Technorati shows it as 103 days out of date -- which is only 84 days off, if you don't count my post made last night.

For the geek-minded reading this, BlogHer, pingVision and rare pattern are powered by Drupal and automatically ping Technorati through ping-O-matic. In an email, another web developer wrote me suggesting that perhaps the problem is with ping-O-matic. I don't know, when manual pinging of Technorati doesn't seem to have an effect. Still, I don't think anything is conclusive yet. We'll have to see.

(I've contacted Technorati about these issues via their contact us form. I am awaiting a response.)

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Laura Scott is a web designer and developer.