1 I don't know.  But here is a thought that was beginning to develop in my mind.  Once upon a time, I wrote a post, hit publish and everyone seemed to know...blogrolling, technorati and TTLB, anyway.  Then it stopped.  No idea why.  So I went to a pinging thing and it all worked.  Until two weeks ago. 

I updated, and never showed up.  Now I have to go directly to technorati and blogrolling and ping them.  It is possible that something is going on with more than just me and perhaps they haven't realized it yet?

Incidentally, the tags I was using with ultraseeker suddenly stopped showing up as tags at technorati, as well.  No idea why, but they get picked up when I go and cut and paste from technorati..  It all looks the same, to me.

2 I've noticed the same thing lately. I had a post labeled "Ted Kennedy,
Traitor" that fell into the ether and I wonder whether there's some
political machinations behind it. Just never showed up. The past
several days it's been extremely slow.



TTLB hasn't updated anything in over a month either.



I also had Sitemeter issues for the better part of January and had to reinstall a new one entirely.



Anyway, I enjoy your site and thank you for recent links. I have you linked at my place.