Quoted at Publish.com

I can't help but gloat. Today, I was quoted at publish.com. The article, Five Reasons Technorati is Broken (and How to Fix it), was written by Jason Boog.

Less bling, more speed

"I'd recommend they drop the flashy shading, icons and curves in the site's design in favor of a more efficient, faster and less bandwidth/processor-expensive design," Web designer Nick Lewis said in an e-mail interview.

Lewis works as Webmaster at the Metropolitan Austin Interactive Network, an evolving open-source computer network in Texas that aims to unite city and civic agencies under one virtual roof—another daunting scaling task.

While Lewis railed against the "lynching of Technorati" in his blog posts, he agreed that the service needs some infrastructure work. Lewis said he felt that Technorati's site is too crammed with images, logos, lists and headlines.

Instead, he urged designers to create a simpler and elegant interface that would allow Technorati to handle larger data loads, just like Google's white-patterned homepage.