Technorati Adds MySpace Blogs

Aaron Brazell says Technorati is now indexing MySpace blogs. Judging from this graph (below), I'd say he sure is right. A spike like that doesn't occur out of nowhere.

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Comments

[Seth]

I have an RSS feed/watchlist set up via Technorati to alert me when my employer's website is blogged. I started seeing results from MySpace blogs on Tuesday or Wednesday.

[Aaron Brazell]

Yeah I'm really disappointed in Technorati. I know MySpace is all the rage among traffic watchers, but I really question the content and the indexability of it.

[Mike]

Wonder when (or if) they'll do Friendster.

[Elliott Back]

Check out this query, for omg OR lol OR rofl OR omfg, and note the sharp increase about that time. I think you've got it!

[mark cuban]

what took them so long.

icerocket.com has been indexing social networks for months.

if you are a business and want to know what someone is saying about you, its going to show up on a social network blog first.

[mobile jones]

User generated content strikes me as a really odd area to try and justify snobbery.

Corporate media disdains blogs as questionable content and bloggers disdain the youth audience for the same reason? That's just absurd. There are a ton of blogs that Technorati indexes which aren't of interest to me. That's fine because other people with different tastes and perspectives enjoy or gain some value from it.

A number of truly talented creators of original work can be found of MySpace. Eric Rice has a presence there. The Four Eyed Monsters high quality, entertaining and meaningful video podcasts have a MySpace presence.

If you think that blogs are the end of the story for social media, you might want to check out some media history. Read about the beginnings of teevee or cable. Online media will continue to evolve. Shutting out portions of the conversation leaves *you* isolated, not those who are creating and those who are listening.

And btw, since you aren't interested in MySpace content, you're probably not aware that the nationwide high school walkouts to protest the House bill on immigration reform was coordinated using MySpace and text messaging. That's pretty weighty use of tools folks. The youth using their online social tools to organize political direct action is not something I've seen Technorati's "blogosphere" accomplish.

I'm just saying....

[Dimitar Vesselinov]

Technorati should index only blogs about blogging...

[taorist]

Debi has a point.

We bloggers used to be the underdogs of the paper publishing industry. They used to call us "amateur-publisher hacks", etc. Now, a new breed is growing. Myspace blogs. It may engulf all the elite/prime bloggers out there yeah, but this might the vision of the future.

Let's see what happens.

[Sesso]

Mmmm... Site looks good! Real good!;-)

[Myspace Backgrounds]

Bloggers are getting more popular and bigger then pen to paper types and with myspace becoming the biggest thing on the net we people who blog will be the masters.

[MySpace-News]

what about a blog serving myspace users? is that something of worth for technorati?

[Myspace Backgrounds]

I think that Technorati have problems just like any other company does and through experience with them i have had many troubles but i contact them and they sort out the problem straight away. I was using tags and they was not indexing them but they sorted it out. Technorati keep up the good work. Oh check out my site sure you will like my friends. http://www.myspacebackgrounds.eu

[Mark]

Technorati have been getting into gear lately they are always making changes to make their site a better place expecially for tags.

Give them a break maybe they will shock us all one day and my friends time will tell.