UPDATE: I just went ahead and made it a lot easier. Just use an image tag instead. New stuff added, with the original stuff, so you'll never know the difference. Suckers. For a while, I've wanted to put my Technorati stats up on some sort of zeitgeist page. Looking at some other posts on the blogohextraweb, I came across something at Bloggers Blog:

You can chart your own inbound link graphic by using this url and substituting your blog url for the text BLOGURL. You can change the days, width and height figures as well http://www.technorati.com/chartimg?q=BLOGURL&days=200&width=460&height=200&type=url

Being the enterprising (and possibly evil) young lad, I went and stuck it in an iframe, and put it in a blog entry: That code would be this: <iframe src="http://www.technorati.com/chartimg?q=macstansbury.com&days=30&width=500&height=300&type=url" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" align="top" height="310" width="510"></iframe> But it'd probably be a lot easier just to use it in an image tag, wouldn't it? Does it still work? Technorati stats I'd say yes. Much simpler code goes a little something like this: <img src="http://www.technorati.com/chartimg?q=macstansbury.com&days=30&width=500&height=300&type=url" alt="Technorati stats"/> The parameters you'd change would be... 1. macstansbury.com would become your url 2. days=30 could be anything, even though you're only tracked for 180 at Technorati 3. width=500 can be anything, but it's not going to be flexible, so that size is what goes 4. height=300 is the same as width, I just used a photographic ratio (3x5 or 6x9) 5. height="310" is 10 more than the height of the picture to avoid the scroll bars 6. width="510" is 10 more than the width of the picture to avoid the scroll bars All on one line, of course, but see how easy that is to do? Stick it on a static page, and have the world at your feet. Maybe. Here's where the evil comes in. Generally, when you post an image to your site, and the image is served from that other site, it's called "hotlinking," and is considered a very bad thing. You don't hotlink pictures, video, or anything else; it's bad internetweb karma. Thus, I asked Technorati if this was, in fact, evil. Seriously, I did the same thing the Technorati bloggers did, only they're from Technorati, and neither you nor I am (unless you're from Technorati legal, in which case a hacker has obviously broken into my system and put this post here, because I would never - never - violate somebody's intellectual property rights - right, brandimensions?). But I got an automated response, and I'll take this down and burn the post if they have legal problems with it, as always. But I did suggest them making it easier for people to inline this sort of thing on their blogs. It's be another way for people to either try to game the system, or to show off. This could be bigger that that TTLB thing ever was! "I have 30 links to me, and you only have 5," they'd say. "You're a loser. Loser. A loser with only 4 links. Loser." Then they'd start yelling for their mom to bring the pizza rolls faster, but that's an entirely different post altogether. Great PR opportunity for Technorati, there. Think about it, fellas.

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While I'm at it, I might as well beg you to add MacStansbury.com to your Technorati Favorites.

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