The LTD Project Blog

I’ve tried and tried to express appreciations on Paisie’s Perusals (For our visitors), but blog security and comment screening have frustrated my endeavours. Thanks, anyway, Paisie, for perusing Edublogs themes, and listing those you’d found that afford comments on pages (The Edublogger, 2009.01.30).

Towards the end of last year, Larry Ferlazzo posted an updated list of social networking sites that might serve equally well for educational networking:

• Not “The Best,” But “A List” Of Social Network Sites (2008.12.17).

Though still relatively unfiltered, the sites Larry has listed undoubtedly deserve a closer look. Thanks to Joao for pointing this out in a Learning with Computers bookmark (2008.12.21).

As I revisited the tail of the homepage for another blog with which I experiment, and on which I make a variety of notes, I rediscovered a Technorati blog monitoring tool that I’d added to it way back when. (I may even have one on this blog, but I’m reluctant to look before I complete this post.)

What grabbed my attention on second glance was that a third blog, one I use with writing classes, currently manifests (according to Technorati) greater authority than the nearest peer linking to it:

The Writing Studio Blog · Authority: 45

Though I am hardly surprised that ELT notes (Authority: 20) surpassed this blog (Authority: 1), I was almost shocked to discover that the writing course blog had leapt suddenly into the double-digits.

Any ideas how Technorati construes authority, or where I might find out?