Technorati is not the only game in town when it comes to seeing what bloggers are talking about this minute. Let me share a few sites that as a news and blog junkie I am downright addicted to:

Blog centric replacements for Google News:

Findory and Digg and Blogrunner are amazing. Findory, in particular, comes close to a real Google News replacement. You don’t need a user account to get a great picture of what’s being talked about right now.

Technology Related Aggregators:

Macromedia’s News Aggregator along with the java.blog give me a great picture of what’s being discussed by blogs focused on two of my favorite technologies: Flash and Java.

Link-a-rama:

Bloglines Most Popular Links, Kinja’s Editor’s Digests, del.icio.us/popular, Daypop’s Top 40 (which runs better than ever), and Intelliseek’s BlogPulse give you a grounds eye view of what’s being bookmarked and shared.

Search:

IceRocket, Bloglines, and Feedster each provide search services that compare well with Technorati. IceRocket now has tag search that works.

Like Doc Searls said however – someone needs to take on an objective review of these services.