Sep 05 2007
Bob Piper and Ordovicius reach Technorati Rank of 100
I note (in poking around on Technorati) that both Ordovicius and Bob Piper have reached a Technorati Authority figure of 100 recently.
Congratulations to them both.
For readers who don’t track metrics, it means that they have received links from 100 different blogs in the last 6 months, which is a fairly robust measure of how often other people take notice of you. It is not a measure of traffic.
On this measure it places them both almost in the top 50,000 blogs worldwide known to Technorati.
Bob Piper … is Bob Piper
I won’t say much about Bob Piper - he has been blogging since 2004, and pretty much everyone knows him. 3 years and still here is cause for congratulation in itself - whether or not one is in agreement.
Ordovicius - “Wales is not England’s bitch”
Ordovicius has made it quickly - the blog is only just over 5 months old - and has the distinction of (I think) being the newest blogger profiled in the 2007 Guide to Political Blogging by Iain Dale.
I believe that there are only two blogs profiled that started in 2007 in the Political Blogging Guide - and the other one is The Wardman Wire. I did my first posting on March 6th, 11 days before Ordovicius trumpeted his “Wales Awake” clarion call:
I’m a Welsh Nationalist, but this isn’t a blog solely about independence, though the cause for Welsh Independence will be a key ingredient. Likewise it is not a blog solely about politics, though politics will play the lead role in it, I’m sure (especially in the run up to the Assembly elections this May). This is also a blog against defeatism, against the idea that Wales is a defeated nation. The Saxons couldn’t defeat us. The Normans needed 216 years, the most advanced technology in warfare at the time, and a lot of luck to take away our sovereignty, bankrupting Europe in the process. And still we rose again. Even afterwards our warriors -employed by the Normans because of their experience in battle - were recognised as the most hard assed bastards in Europe. You only had to say the words “Welsh bowman” to make a seasoned French knight shit his armoured breaches back then. A lot of us seem to have forgotten this, and seem to border on being apologetic for being Welsh. Wales is not England’s bitch.