Sifry's Alerts

The first day of the RNC had interesting blogger moments – mostly from outside of the convention, where both Liberal and Conservative bloggers placed their attention. Much of the following information is taken from Technorati‘s Politics Attention Index™, a new feature on politics.technorati.com where we watch the most authoritative bloggers following the US Elections – [...]

I’m proud to announce that we’ve just gone live with an updated feature set and look to our Election Watch 2004 site, politics.technorati.com. You’ll notice a few big changes, and a bunch of smaller, more subtle changes and fixes. We’ve changed the orientation of the site away from posting the most recent posts by [...]

We are very pleased that CNN has invited Technorati back to provide real-time analysis of the political blogosphere at next week’s Republican National Convention. I will be in New York at CNN’s convention broadcast center at Madison Square Garden, along with Technorati’s Richard Ault. Technorati will provide on-air commentary for CNN, and a daily update at [...]

When I look up Technorati on Technorati today, the top results (e.g. Michael Fioritto, paidContent, Om Malik, and John Battelle) carry news that we’ve received venture funding. Some of you may wonder why we generally don’t bother talking about investment stuff. Isn’t it news, after all?

Making a big deal about VC investments is unnecessary, it seems [...]

Well, it certainly has been an incredible past 3 weeks. It’s almost hard to believe, but it has only been 20 days since we got the initial call from CNN, and the entire team here has been through a firedrill the likes of which I’ve never seen. In three short weeks, we had to [...]