On Fri. May 4th, we updated Technorati.com to include the Technorati Authority for blogs listed on the Blog page and in search results. This update changed the earlier references of "N blogs link here" and "X links from Y blogs" with the single Technorati Authority number. On the blog page, we also show the Technorati Rank.
Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.
That's going to attract a bunchload of new technoraty spammers (also known as seo professionals) looking to increase their technoraty rank. Me really thinks the net would be a lot better off when google and all the rest would drop their spammer magnets (also known as page rank systems).