Xu Jing Lei Passes Boing Boing on Technorati 100

Posted on May 4, 2006

Xu Jing Lei's blog has bumped Boing Boing from the #1 spot on the Technorati 100. This time it is not another incident of the Technorati list going bonkers. Technorati's Kevin Marks explains:

Those of you paying attention to the Technorati 100 will have noticed that it is getting more international, due to the explosion of non-English blogs as Dave noted in State of the Blosphere. With today's update, the number one spot has changed from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin and friends to ?? ??? ??BLOG by Xu Jing Lei. Evidently a name starting with X is a big help -- perhaps Xiaxue will be next?

Sounds like it will be much tougher to move into the Technorati 100 from now on. Xu Jing Lei's blog is hosted by the Sina Corporation, which is an online media company and information service provider for China.

Update: Steve Rubel reports that this confirms the blogosphere is flat. He also referring to Technorati as T'Rati for some bizarre reason. For those that want to use the Technorati slang it looks much better with the small r -- T'rati -- like Valleywag has it.