I just checked my web site reports on nextSTAT, and noticed that I already have one “real” visitor since I setup SurplusMeat earlier this week.

The visitor did a search on technorati.com using the term “shawn burke”. And referring to the visitor details image, it appears that the visit originated from Microsoft Corp. Putting my detective hat on, I am most certain that the visitor was Mr. Burke himself or someone with very close ties to him. Interesting….

This leads to the question, how has Technorati changed web publishers, meaning bloggers, of course? Do you search for yourself or your site on Technorati to see who’s blogging about you and who’s linking to you? I am most certain that a very high percentage of bloggers do just what Mr. Shawn Burke did. And thinking about how Google changed how people use the web, I believe Technorati (and sites like that) have and will continue to change how people use and view the web. I have more thoughts on Google, Technorati, and search engine optimization, but I’ll leave that for another day. (For instance, can you really bring traffic to your site by sprinkling your content with naked Justin Timberlake or paris hilton video.)

By the way, if you are Shawn Burke, thank you for being the first SuplusMeat visitor. Feel free to drop me a comment.