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Africa: technorati bomb

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 @ 21:06 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

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Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Software & Tools, Technology

Is there a need for technorati bomb for the African blogosphere?, asks Black Looks: “I am not sure some sort of “TECHNORATI.COM BOMB” (as in google bomb) type exercise with the tag AFRICA + add your country tag irrespective of topic on every single post for the next 6 months might work? Could work but then again maybe it just doesnt matter and who cares a toss anyway?”

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[...] Sokari of Black looks writes about the poor linkage among African blogs and their poor ranking on most blog search engines, particularly Technorati. She even contemplated bloggers doing a Technorati tag bomb. [...]

# 2006-12-8 at 10:44 am

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