There are a lot of new features in the Technorati beta -- such as the RSS feeds associated with tag pages -- which I really like. But otherwise, it seems like the same Technorati with a new coat of attractive paint on it.

And there are still some strange bugs. For example, I can't seem to ever get the 'list by authority' tab to work for me, in either the old or the new Technorati. If you go to Technorati and check out Get Real, you'll see there are 399 links to the blog, and it defaults to showing the most recent list of references. But if you click on the authority tab, you see a screen that says there are no links to Get Real yet.

Note that you also see a message that the last update was 6 hours ago, however, the 399 links number is days old.

[Update: Tried it again, and this time I got strange results again. "50 posts in the past 502 days"? Should it be more like 399? I'm lost.]

A recommendation for Technorati, on a completely different note: Why only show the top 100 blogs? I would personally like to see the top 1000 blogs, or the top 100 blogs that use a certain tag or set of tags. Or the top 100 blogs that are linked to by people who have also linked to me. Showing the top 100 over and over is uninteresting. We all know about BoingBoing and Engadget. We want to poke around in the rich interconnections buried in all those links you are tracking. Let us at them!

And why set up a feedback page, when you have tags? Wouldn't it have been better to recommend a Technorati Beta tag, and ask people to post using it?