A Dummy's Response to Technorati Fav Exchange

Everyone is talking about technorati favorite exchange, So I thought I should also contribute a bit. Well everyone is using this "Add it to my Technorati Favorites" feature to encourage his/her blog readers.

Darren started questioning this exchange program and was first criticized by Maki.

Well so far I have read following views on technorati favorite exchange.

• Maki's View
• Darren's View
• My Real Favorite Blogs
• Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment: Whores, Prom, and Pig’s Blood
• Responding to Technorati Faves Criticism

• Ruffled Feathers on the Top 100
• What I accidentally learnt about Programming
• Favourites Exchange, my Thoughts!
• Problogger Agrees - Technorati Gaming is Bad
• The Technorati 100 Not So Hot?
• The Technorati top 100 superficial list
• Technorati Favorites and The Cheaters Who are Cheating the System
• The Sad State of Technorati’s Top Favorited Blogs

The blogging geeks at top are having their reputation at stake whereas dummies like me are enjoying this experiment.

You can promote it in anyway. Its democracy on the blogosphere and its perfectly legal. But the question here is " Is it Ethical?". People who are really "deserving" to be in the list will not be in the list if the exchange program is a success. But what is that defines "deserving" to be in the top 100 list? More and more people should like the content of your blog.

Well someone adds you to his/her favorite only if they like the content of youtr blog. Well those who are liking the content of Maki's blog are adding it to their favorites. Well he may come up in top 100 list with his technorati fav experiment but Its for sure that dummies like me are not going to get into that list in near future.

Well certainly it will be an ego-booster for me as I see now that 20 persons have favorited my one month old blog, but if I ask a question to myself that whether I deserve that, I may find it difficult to find an answer.

But we can take this in a different way that our blog gets more exposure to others and we get know about other blogs

Its now a cool controversy which has become the talk of the blogosphere. Some are critcizing it and some are appreciating it.

Well I'm just a dummy and I don't know whether I'm right or wrong but I feel that technorati can overcome the experiment anytime by following some simple techniques. They can change the algorithm of their ranking startegies. They can rank a
blog by

actual number of faviorites =
no. of persons who have fav the blog - no. of blogs that have been fav. by the blog's owner

well offcourse its not foolproof but if a dummy like me can come up with something like this then they are "Technorati". They don't have to worry much about this. And may be they are enjoying this controversy. They may be planning to relaunch it as a social-networking site:p.