Currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.
Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”
It is the Google of blogs. So we registered wtih them
And they offer yet another metric to track your blog's progress (or lack of it).
Our Technorati rank: 4,978,471.
We must aim to go down to 1 million in a month's time.