My friend in Habari land, Michael Bishop has been trying to claim his Habari powered bloggingmeta.com site with Technorati for over a week now, and so far nothing has happened. In earlier days, Technorati had a system called quick claim where you placed a specific unique link on your site to validate your claim of ownership, but this has now been replaced with other methods.
Going through the motions in the Technorati "Claim a Blog" system seems to indicate that a similar method of validating is still available, the only difference seems to be that you now need to make a new post on your site with the generated URL in it, instead of just placing it somewhere on the front page.
Mr. Bishop did this over a week ago, but still no successful claim has been made in the Technorati system. The support people at Technorati answered with
"We apologize, but the reason this occurs is because we do not support the quick claim method for your blog. We are currently working on this bug."
While Wordpress and Moveable Type, and probably other well known blog/cms systems are natively supported, it might seem like Technorati are forgetting the smaller publishing systems.
Is this an indication that Technorati values content based on publishing platform rather than actual content?
I might be getting worked up over nothing here, and the issue might very well be resolved very soon, but it is very frustrating to be left hanging like this. Hopefully Mr. Bishops claim is validated and users of "other" publishing systems can trust that they can successfully claim their sites with Technorati, regardless of which publishing platform they decide to use.