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Check out my cool new Technorati tags at the bottom of my post. Wanna know how I got ‘em? Do ya? Well:

1. First I downloaded Firefox (ok, I already had it, but you can download it by clicking the link at the to of the page!).

2. Next I downloaded Greasemonkey – It’s a Firefox extension that allows you to run user scripts on any webpage to add functionality. For example you could add cool Technorati tags to the end of your blog posts.

3. The user script you want to use in your Mozilla browser, enabled by Greasemonkey is called Magical Sheep. Click on the button, open your Blogger Beta, and voila, you can now add ultra-neato technorati tags like you see below.

Yesterday I wrote a post entitled Technorati Ping Problems on another blog. It described a problem I was having with a new blog promotion service I started using recently, Technorati. Information for one of the three blogs I have registered with them (this one) was majorly wacky.

I just received an email from Technorati support saying they made a “small adjustment” and everything should be working now. Sure enough, everything is looking good. My latest posts are up there, showing my index as updated 6 hours ago rather than 393 days. I emailed them just yesterday, so I’m impressed with their response time. Hopefully the problem is truely solved and I won’t be needing “small adjustments” on a regular basis.

Technorati appears to be a very useful and powerful service. They do have a problem related to pinging some blogs, but they are handling it. I think I’ll keep them