Thanks for all this great info in this post. After a couple months of getting no love from technorati, I'm now getting some good traffic and my blog rankings are climbing. I just recently started a new blog and linked it up with my other blogs, and technorati picked it up right away. So just a word of encouragement to everybody who can't seem to get technorati to list their blogs: stay at it, keep tagging, exchange links with other blogs that are listed on technorati, and be patient!
http://www.technorati.com/profile/webpimp