It was only a matter of time

Thanks to DoctorVee for pointing me in the direction of this one (oh and nice to see you on MyBlogLog).

Someone (Kineda) has created a web app that uses the Technorati API to give you info on your blogs standing. This isn’t new as I’ve posted about two in the last two months that use the API to do a similar thing.

This time though, instead of telling you how much your blog is worth or what you could get in terms of ad revenue, it plays on the OK culture of ‘trend lists’.

In the way that people like Britney Spears, Johnny Depp and other people I have just about heard of because I have no real interest in celebrity culture are on the Hollywood A-List. Sites run by people like John C Dvorak and Zach Braff are on the Blogebrity (horrible, horrible word) A-List.

You type in your blog address into a little box HERE and it gives you a pretty little pink graphic to put on your site so you an tell your readers what level blogger they’re currently reading.

It basically puts a pop-culture title to the Technorati authority rankings. A C-List blogger like Me and DoctorVee (not a bad Jim Carey movie but two C-list blogs) would have a middle authority ranking, B-List blog would have a High Authority ranking and to obtain A-list status you’d have to be in that rare group of just 4000 blogs with High Authority status.

The A-list bloggers have 500 or more blogs linking to them in the last six months, have been going more than 18 months and regularly post more than twice a day.

Technorati says this: “Some of these are full-fledge professional enterprises that post many, many times per day and behave increasingly like our friends in the mainstream media.”

A B-list blogger will have 100-499 blogs linking in the last 6 months and through sheer dedication and hard work have progressed from the C-list over time.

The C-list is where most regular personal bloggers tend to live. It’s for people to have 10-99 blogs linking in the last six months and have been going for around 260 days.

The D-list is for those blogs that have just started or the ones that don’t post very often. These will be the blogs that either die quickly because of no real dedication on the part of the author or no real interest in the subject matter.

Up Your Ego is on the C-list for a number of reasons. I DO post daily, sometimes twice a day but not always. I’ve been blogging for two years but had a crash at the start of 2006 and lost a years worth of blog posts, so, according to Technorati have only been blogging for a year.

That and the fact that not enough blogs link to Up Your Ego yet and the content isn’t really good enough for B-list status.