I’ll admit that I am small minded, and and am thus am more than a little outraged that Technorati has decided to drop — until further notice, or it is otherwise economically feasible — posts that are more than 6 months old.

Yes, there are the arguments that Technorati is irrelevant, so “who cares”; there is also the assertion that Technorati is trying to move away from archiving and indexing blogs in favour of other “new media”, because that’s what is “cool”, “hip”, and “relevant”.

Well, bollocks to both of those things.

I think its tremendously disrespectful that Technorati has elected to ignore a ton of great postings for the sake of expediency, and worse yet, not really even tell anyone about it, perhaps thinking that no one would notice — even if its ‘temporary’. It is doing a great job of hastening its own irrelevance, and I can see with the recent WordPress 2.3.x update that it is becoming even more irrelevant still.

For those who haven’t yet upgraded (and you should, although watch out for the business about categories and tagging), you will find out when you do that on your WordPress Dashboard the incoming links are no longer powered by Technorati, but by Google Blogsearch.

Now, when I found out about this change, I was going to install this plugin to revert things back (and I still may — I am small minded after all) — but with how Technorati has shrunk its index … well, bollocks indeed, Technorati, bollocks indeed.