So I have been trying to cut the folks at Technorati some slack, since they have gone over to a new beta recently. But the fact is that the site is becoming impossibly backlogged. This is the message I got several times today:

I also sent email complaining that the info about Get Real hadn't been updated in weeks: stuck at "404 links from 260 source". I came back from lunch -- I didn't get email from Technorati support, note, and noticed that I had been updated: "377 links from 248 sources" -- going backward in links even though I have had 16 new links in the last 3 days... again, according to Technorati.

I am starting to wonder if the backlog and performance is making Technorati not only difficult to use, but maybe the data is becoming incomplete or erroneous?

I guess I am going to have to give Jeremy Wright's recommendations about Technorati alternatives -- particularly IceRocket -- a look-see. Also note that yesterday's post about Open Tags is immensely relevant: we can't depend on any single service to manage the critical glue that holds the social architecture together, and the dumb way we are managing tags -- based on a specific service's tag namespace -- must be jettisoned, or exptended, and soon.