internet - It is all about pinging Technorati

I'm following the feed and the chat of We Media in London today. A bit of a familiar sound from the chat, where the vanguard is complaining while the old media are desperately trying to catch up.
Short exchange with Kevin Marks from Technorati who joined from San Francisco on the recent debates on the question why Technorati is doing such a bad job on non-English sites. It all boils down to pinging the Technorati servers. When you cannot be bothered (like many Chinese webhosts), Technorati will not list you. We actually had to explain a participant in India what a ping is.
David Sifry wrote in his latest analysis that Japan was actually overtaking both the English and Chinese weblogs in numbers and speculation has been going around on why that might be the case. Kevin explained they are now working with a Japanese partner who is helping them to get Japanese sites registered. I suggested we should perhaps get some more French, Chinese, Iranian and Swahili partners in to help them, but Kevin referred to David for that discussion. Would be worth to consider.