It would not be right to say goodbye to the previous year, as it helped me learn a thing or two with what I wanted to do with, well, basically, my life. This blog has grown from something that contains trivial stuff to something that contains not-so-trivial stuff. Well, at least from a WordPress-related standpoint.

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This past few days, at least a couple of websites have posted articles about the failure of Technorati's ranking system, referred to as Authority. Blogstorm's Patrick Altoft wrote an article about how to get banned from Technorati's Top 100 list. WLTC's Jeffro2pt0 followed up with an article about Technorati lacking authority, or at least that's what the title of the article says. Both articles promoted discussions as to how ineffective Technorati's ranking systems are, and how the banned websites used as examples should not be penalized by being banned from the list. What's all this fuss, anyway?

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I guess it was just a matter of time before someone creates something like this. Might as well do it myself. Technorati Tag Cloud Widget for WordPress 2.3 is now available for download. This plugin, when activated, adds a widget in your Widgets page that when used, displays a tag cloud linking to Technorati in your sidebar. The widget is fully configurable but entirely optional. Happy Hunting!

My PLUGINS are now also available in the WordPress Plugin Repository. Yay!

And I thought I was finished with my plugins. I now realize that as long as WordPress keeps evolving, my plugins need to do the same too. However, the update to my plugins Technorati Tags and Technorati Tag Cloud, both for WordPress 2.3+ are not related to WordPress evolving once again. These updates are more related to me being a noob and not realizing that although tag search results may seem to be similar, it is, in fact, VERY different from each other.

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