We might not want to admit in public but bloggers; especially those doing it as a career, liked having a ranking system that we use to get with Technorati. I say use to because whether they might not want to admit it or not Technorati isn’t really relevant anymore. Still though we flash that Technorati chicklet in our sidebars like it does mean something.
The thing is that between the service being severely gamed into uselessness the whole new media arena, of which blogs are only a part of now, has changed dramatically. Links, the very commodity by which we figured out our worth within the blogosphere have changed. They have grown beyond the blogs and into metric powerhouses on other new media services.
I just want to make it clear from the start that I have for sometime felt that there is going to be a shake-out in the blogosphere. While I couldn’t really put my finger on the reason I felt that way I knew in my gut that it was coming. The rumblings could be heard in the different corners of places like 
