Creeva’s World 2.0

I really didn’t have time to write about this last week when it first came to my atten­tion but it seems that Creeva.com has been banned from Tech­no­rati for gam­ing the sys­tem.   It states that I repub­lish mate­ri­als from other sites onto this blog.   This is not untrue, though 90% of my posts actu­ally orig­i­nate from there.   If I write some­thing I cen­tral­ize it all on creeva.com.   It’s sim­ple.  It’s effi­cient.  It allows me cen­tral­ize and backup my writing.

That being said, they aren’t wrong.   One of the under­ly­ing exper­i­ments that this blog does is cross­post­ing.  It cross­posts to myspace, face­book, tum­blr, blog­ger, and many more.   I don’t make huge piles of cash (haven’t made a dime in my pocket yet).  I don’t blast peo­ple with ads, though on some sites includ­ing the main there are some that are there.   I’m not doing it to drive up profit in any way.  I’m doing it so dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties can read my stuff.  I won’t harp on it, I’ve writ­ten about my cross­post­ing before.

The ques­tion is how rel­e­vant is Tech­no­rati becom­ing.   I know this ques­tion has been asked before, and I used to believe in Tech­no­rati.   I didn’t start 500 blogspot accounts to pro­mote the mate­r­ial.  I used 1 pub­lic site per ser­vice.  For the point of exper­i­men­ta­tion and proof of con­cept.  I also have been slowly work­ing on a whole arti­cle series on how to cross­post.   With the myr­iad of ser­vices and the fact that data is not yet truly portable, but begin­ning to become so.   How can these ser­vices accu­rately  track where infor­ma­tion is orig­i­nat­ing from.

Like I said I’m not annoyed, I can live with­out tech­no­rati.  When peo­ple are post­ing links to their site on tum­blr, friend­feed, twit­ter, and oth­ers how long before there are more peo­ple like me?   Ser­vices like Ping.fm and Hel­loTxt serve in a mar­ket seg­ment only to fuel this fur­ther.   I’m not some­one who has a tar­get­ted truly branded blog beyond self brand­ing.   I don’t have a cer­tain topic set I cover and reg­u­lary write about.  I’m a schiz­o­phrenic writer that is all over the place.   The only thing I hope is con­sis­tent is my voice.  Beyond that take away from my writ­ing what you will.