Oracle Blogs Ranked by Technorati Authority – July 07 Edition
Last May I published a list of top Oracle blogs ranked by Technorati authority. Since then, I have had requests to publish an updated list. I was reluctant to do it because creating the list takes quite a bit of time. However, last Sunday afternoon, I was able to automate the creation of the spreadsheet. I wrote a ColdFusion page that used the Technorati API to get the Technorati information about each blog aggregated by OraNA.info.
Now that I have it automated, I will try to publish an updated list on a regular basis, highlighting the changes in authority for each blog, up, down or unchanged. The list includes ALL the blogs aggregated by OraNA.info, even the ones that have no Technorati information.
As a reminder, the Technorati “authority” is the number of blogs (not links) linking to a blog in the last six months. The Technorati Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the hightest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. The smaller your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top.
The above list has been automatically generated by calling the Technorati BlogInfo Query for each blog URL. The call was made using an HTTP GET to http://api.technorati.com/bloginfo?key=[apikey]&url=[blog url].
If your blog has a low authority and if you care about boosting your authority ranking you may want to write posts that are interesting to other bloggers (not just to you) so they’ll link to you. I have found the following FAQs helpful in understanding how to have Technorati index your blog:
- How do I get indexed? or better indexed?
- My posts are not indexed and my post tags aren’t either. What can I do?
- Links from other blogs not showing up in search?
5 Links from Around the Web (2007-07-07)
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Expecting users to rush to 11g any faster than they did with prior versions would be unrealistic.
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This article takes some tantalizing glimpses into the upcoming improvements to database performance and management.
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Checkpwd is the fastest dictionary based password checker for Oracle databases. This is a useful tool for DBA’s to identify Oracle accounts with weak or default passwords.
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Eclipse SQL Explorer is a thin SQL client that allows you to query and browse any JDBC compliant database.
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An Interview with Dennis Wuthrich of Farallon Geographics highlighting the use of Oracle XE in geospatial applications.
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Comments Off | Filed in LinksRunning on a Virtual Private Server and a Couple of Pictures
If you are one of the lucky people who was greeted by the following dreaded error page when you visited my blog, OraQA.com or OraNA.info in the past few weeks, I have good news for you (and me). Obviously, the shared hosting account that I had with BlueHost.com could not handle the load of three websites (my fourth domain oradot.com is forwarded to my Tumblr blog). I have not had any issues with BlueHost until recently when my account was “exceeding its CPU quota” several times a week. This was not good. I had to do something.
Sean Corfield recently wrote about his move from a shared hosting account to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) at HostMySite.com. So, I decided to do the same. I completed the move of the three domains from BlueHost to a Linux VPS on HostMySite last weekend. Like Sean, I am very impressed with the excellent support at HostMySite and so far the sites are in a very good health.
On another personal note, I took Thursday and Friday off to spend some time with my family. The weather in the Portland (Oregon) area has been warm and sunny for the last few days. On Friday, we toured a couple of places a few miles east of Portland. Here are a couple of pictures:
This is me holding my 9 month old daughter Julie
… and with my 6 year old son George
Can you guess the places where these pictures were taken? Here is another hint from my car’s GPS, the red arrow represents the car:
Here is A Different And Handy Way to Search in Your Browser
Whether you use Firefox or Internet Explorer, you probably know about this handy search box usually located at the top right corner of your browser window.
And if you are a long time reader of my blog, you probably know about the handy Oracle related search plugins that allow you to search Oracle documentation, sites, forums and blogs.
But, what you probably do not know is that any active search engine you set in the search box will be automatically added to your mouse context menu that pops up when you highlight and right-click text on a web page. This is all done by default and without requiring any additional Add-on like ConQuery for example.
I noticed this Firefox-only feature by coincidence the other day. So here is an example of how it works:
Select a search type from the list of search engines, for example Oracle 10.2 Docs:
Right-click a highlighted text on any web page:
Notice the search Oracle 10.2 Docs for “the highlighted text” option. Very handy indeed.
Now, change the search type to Oracle Blogs for example:
Highilight and right-click text to read what the Oracle bloggers have written about it.
One other way to accomplish a similar functionality for Oracle specific searches is to use these Oracle bookmarklets that work in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.
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