blogs blogs everywhere

My Sunday morning treat came this morning, in the form of the stats report mailed from my website.  I saw something I hadn't noticed before - some site called "Technorati.com" had referrals to me, and was climbing up the list.  So I went to take a look, and discovered that it is a "conversation engine", that tells you what's being said right now on every site that has something to say.  So, its a search engine for blogs?  It does present some interesting data, but calling it a "conversation engine" is interesting.
Oh, and the prevalence of blogging software is incredible.  I can't believe you can now get so many pre-packaged blog engines, for many different platforms and configurations.