"While blogs are increasing in quantity, their authority-as currently measured by Technorati-is collectively losing influence."

-- Maven Brian Solis, writing at TechCrunch about how other measurable forms of influence--like Twitter, retweeting, building community and so on, are ways to measure impact, reach and attention.

Susan sez: This is so true, and why I love the web--Mao's law of continuous revolution is always in play. Conversation and community are continually created, distributed, sifted, filtered, redistributed--we're just one big ameboa, redividing and growing.