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I just came back from a week break, away from a computer and blogging. I read about all the fuss with Technorati blaming the 2000 bloggers project, claiming it’s a manipulation of their ranking system, etc…
So Tino gave up the project and Elaine took it up at 2Kbloggers, creating the community that some (actually one in my knowledge) said it was not.

I think it’s OK for Tino to give up. It shows he had only generous intentions and that he did it as an experiment and he wants to move on. Fine.

2000 bloggers has bever been a “chain”, a splog or a link farm. It has side effects that impact the technorati ranking… a little : I moved from 89 000 to 38 000. No big deal. And as someone pointed out in the comments, this is just a temporary effect. The real ranking is from each blogs’ readership. Nothing else.

I am happy the community is starting somewhere else (with a crisp design on top on it). It’s a good thing, and I like Elaine’s  democratic - versus others’ pseudo-selective - approach:

“I want 2kbloggers.com to be a place for bloggers to share their blogs and blog information.

• I want to give them opportunities to promote and share their own blogs.
• I want to give them opportunities to find new and different blogs.
• I want to see people reposting articles from their own blogs into the 2kbloggers.com communal blog.
• I want to see them sharing information about blogging with one another, as well as other kinds of information.”

Long life 2Kbloggers and good luck Technorati.

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