Tauberer won a contest from Technorati for using it to link bills to the blog posts discussing them.
The John Hawks Weblog is a widely read and referenced science blogs as measured by Technorati's ranking.
Users are encouraged to read and comment, and all posts are automatically linked to Technorati to return contextual blogosphere results.
In the words of David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, a search engine for blogs, one-to-many “lectures” (i.e., from media companies to their audiences) are transformed into “conversations” among “the people formerly known as the audience”.
In 2006, Nature compiled a list of the 50 most popular blogs written by scientists, as measured by Technorati.
Although not well known outside of China, Xu is popular domestically: in mid-2006, her Chinese-language blog had the most incoming links of any blog in any language on the Internet, according to Technorati.