Technorati , which ranks blog sites, has gone through a major overhaul.

While the Indians who run Blogstreet admitted to me they're on to other things, David Sifry & Co. have been very busy indeed.

They have changed the ranking system, as I noted earlier, counting links and the number of sites linked from separately. They have also done a complete spidering of the blog world, with some interesting results.

Made 'ya click.

• First, in the shameless self promotion area. This site's "link cosmos," which previously consisted of fewer than 100 sites, has suddenly jumped to about 300. Thanks folks. This means I'm no longer 10% of the way toward the Top 100 -- I'm 20% of the way there. At this rate I'll be a big star around 2024.
  
• Sites I had long thought were "big-time," like Insta-idiot and Sludge Retort, are no longer in the Top 100. It's not their subject matter -- Dean and Bush and Kerry are all there. It's not their views -- Andrew Sullivan, Lileks and the Johnson brothers all hold their places. Among liberals there are Eschaton, Daily Kos, and Tom Tomorrow, all placed high. Reynolds and Drudge are just not there all of a sudden.
  
• Speaking of Dean, it's his old site, DeanforAmerica, that's in the Top 100, not the new site, DemocracyforAmerica. His is not the only site like this. Kevin Drum's Calpundit is linked, but not his new office at Washington Monthly. Daer Raed, which stopped updating months ago, is still ranked well above Baghdad Burning, which is updated regularly.
  
• Someone, I think, has learned to game the system. Suicide Girls, a soft core porn site in which women create diaries and have artsy-nudes taken of themselves (access to which costs readers money), is in here 7 times, all for inside pages (those of individuals, not the group) and some girls are in there twice. (That's what is most suspicious.) I know sex still sells, but only one sex shop?
  
• Photos are now huge. The number of links going to photo sites like Fotolog and Photo Matt is dominating the listings all of a sudden.
  
• Modblog also has several, separate listings. Whatever Modblog is doing, chances are the Girls are doing the same thing.
  
• In a related story community sites like Fark, Kuro5hin, and Metafilter are all rated highly. Slashdot is, by the new measures of Technorati, now the King of All Blog Media.
  
• Where did these guys come from? Scott Watermasysk is the second-leading blog? Dave Pell is number three? And they're both ahead of Dave Winer? (And how did Mike Little get 3326 links?)
  

I don't want to have to take my clothes off to get readers...not without doing a couple of months of Pilates first.

UPDATE: One point I neglected to make when I first wrote this is that Corante is now #32 on the Technorati Top 100 list. All credit goes to Hylton Joliffe, our fearless leader, who has added introductions to much great bloggy goodness onto the main page, so you can always get your tech-take fix whenever you go there. As a result, many of you bookmark the Corante page, and thousands of blogs link directly to it.