It took a little while longer than I had hopped, but I finally managed to get an e-mail read by a member of the Technorati support staff. Within two hours of sending the e-mail, they had their spiders crawling my site and the issue (although they didn’t say what it was) was fixed. This is my first post since the fix, so I’m crossing my fingers that everything works well and there are no more problems.

I am especially happy, as I should now get a good boost in daily hits and be able to grow and maintain a larger readership. A lofty goal, I know, but I think I can do it if I continue with interesting updates and strong, witty commentary.

At this point, I’d also like to offer some of the recent updates to the site itself. The most obvious is the introduction of general icons designating external links in posts and comments, as well as specific icons for common sites and sources (currently Wikipedia, US Government (.gov) sites, and WorldNetDaily). I hope that you find these somehow useful in navigating this site and the vast world of the internet.

I am also working on some small changes to the template and site design, hopefully getting things looking a bit more professional and maybe getting the pages to load more quickly (although most of that is due to WordPress). You may have noticed the (somewhat) recent addition of collapsible items in the left menu bar, as well as the addition of an ‘incoming links’ link to the right menu bar on the homepage. Look for more such changes in the coming weeks as I try to make News. Views. Common Sense. more intuitive and user friendly.

-Andy