I have been spending a bit more time than usual fiddling around at Technorati, recently, and I noticed that there is a tidal movement of Get Real's Technorati rank. While the recent trend has been upward (higher ranking = smaller number), at various times of the day the number swings downward (lower ranking = higher number).

I presume this is in some way a global phenomenon: as different time zones come into peak blog reading and linking, different blogs get new votes. So while we are sleeping, Asian and then European and African bloggers are seeing their Technorati rankings advance, while those with primarily American communities fall back in the rankings. Of course, some folks may have a well balanced gloabl audience, but I bet in general there is pronounced language, national, and cultural clustering at work.

At any rate, sometime in the middle of the night, Get Real progressed into the top 5,000 blogs tracked by Technorati. I noticed that we were ranked at 5,275ish a few days ago, so we must be attracting links at a pretty steep rate. I wish Technorati would provide some sort of historical plotting as part of its service.