Plus blogrolling is driving me nuts. The stopped automatic pinging for some reason. Not it is hit and miss with manual pings.

Keep your chin up. Good blogs will win out.

I wouldn’t sweat it. None of the tools are 100% reliable that’s why we use more than one. And I have a feeling blogging tools’ popularity these days comes and goes as the promoters of a specific tool or site are able to keep up with the times. If Technorati becomes buggy I’m sure enough users will feel the change to where Technorati will either have to step up or get less usage as bloggers replace it with something else.

We’ve had blogrolling.com as part of the “Ping Package” wordpress is supposed to go through when a new article is posted, and over the last few days I’ve been manually pinging after each post. Neither seem to be working!

I’ve even tried pingomatic.com which is, basically, as much use as a lead parachute.

I know this is no consolation whatsoever, but I, too have been losing authority in massive doses. In the last month and a half, my authority number has free-fallen by over 50. That doesn’t correspond in any way to a sudden dropoff of links that were 180 days old (Technorati’s explanation in their FAQs), since there was no corresponding flurry of new links six months ago.

I sent a complaint to Technorati about this, but, of course, received absolutely no answer. The oddest thing is that new linkers do continue to show up. But I don’t always get an extra authority point when one does.

As far as the Atheist Blogroll, you might want to join Blogrolling.com if you haven’t already done so. I think Mojoey recommended this a while back. You can ping whenever you post, and you get those nice asterisks and the “New” label. That seems to work pretty well for me.