I updated to a newer version of Wordpress, about 35 days ago, and everything worked so much better, except traffic from Technorati vanished. Seemed strange really as overall web traffic has been increasing for my blog.

So, I checked my Technorati settings and saw that I was not pinging! So, during the update Wordpress just stopped pinging for some reason, even though the RSS feeds and everything else is working just fine. Fairly annoying, but life goes on.

UPDATE:

After extensive research, I found out that it was not the wordpress upgrade causing the problem with Technorati. It is Technorati itself. It is no longer crawling or indexing my blog, (pinging) and it has nothing to do with my version of wordpress, but rather Technorati itself seems to be broken. I emailed Technorati about this, and of course, I recieved no response, even though I was very detailed in the description of the problem, and the steps I had taken to attempt to get Technorati to Ping my blog, but it is all to no avail. Technorati seems to think that this blog does not exist.

Didn’t you get the Memo? So much has been going on in the press about the NSA phonetapping database and the blogworld is more concerned about the results for American Idol. Where is everyone? Where have the bloggers gone? What is going on here?

I wrote before about how the blogs were discussing to Impeach Bush after the Katrina disaster, but they are silent, oh so silent about the cover story on USA today. The press has “woken up” and is doing its job, and the blogs have gone to sleep. Regardless of your political position, what is going on here is a massive issue. You need to pay attention to the NSA wiretapping. This issue is huge. The irony is that this is the same thing as the Watergate Scandal, except on a much larger, and much more frightening scale.

Having said that, despite your political opinion, and despite your opinion of Bush, you must be willing to give the current administration the chance to defend itself fairly, however, you must also support the investigation of these charges. As was pointed out (but the bloggers seem not to have noticed…) in many news articles the United States Justice Department ABANDONED their attempt to investigate the warrentless spying of United States citizens because the NSA - the very people they were supposed to be investigating would not give them security clearance.

There is a storm coming, and all those people who were blogging to Impeach Bush, this is a larger story than Katrina was. This story is huge. It rocks the United States down to its very foundations, down to the fourth amendment.

The question is bloggers. What are you going to do?

Last week, there was an uproar in the blogsphere about the Stephen Colbert and his roasting of Bush not being aired in the media. Now, we have a story that is appearing in the media of the apparent authorization of the NSA to monitor and log the calls of millions of United States citizens without a court order…

And the top 10 searches on Technorati yield silence.

What gives? We were so good, we protested the lack of coverage on Colbert, now, a big story breaks in the press, and we seem more concerned with:

1) American Idol

2) Chris Daughtry

3) Lost

4) Myspace

5) Immigration

What gives? What happened to the outrage? Do bloggers in the U.S. not read their own constitution? Do they not know what is going on with the NSA spying? Do they not care!? Hell, I am Canadian and I care about what is going on with the bloggers (and everyone else) in the United States. Could the press have been right about Colbert not being a big story, and that irate bloggers just blew it out of proportion? What are people to think when the bloggers don’t even react to a story of this magnitude? Daily Kos has coverage of course, but then, it always does, (despite the unfortunate Ad Hominim attacks it often levies).

Are all the bloggers asleep? Do American Idol and a fictional T.V. show “lost” matter more to the people of the United States than the basic freedoms? Do bloggers even read the U.S. Constitution? I have read it, and I am Canadian! What gives? U.S. Bloggers, where are you? Where is the outrage when we need it? Stop voting for American Idol and wake up!