Technorati says I have some authority...

I was just playing with Technorati last night, and searching for a recent post of mine and found that it has me categorized as having "some authority".

I searched for "iphone" and the result was quite large, so I refined the search to only english blogs with "some authority" and I was there!  Granted I was on page 14 of over 15,000 results, but the results were ordered by age (or posting date) rather than any pageranking system.

So apparently "authority" is simply determined by unique links to my site:

Authority:

You can also limit your results to blogs that have any, a little, some, or a lot of authority. Authority is determined by the number of unique site links that a blog has. The more unique site links a blog has to it, the better the ranking and higher the authority of the blog

http://technorati.com/help/search.html

... and here I thought that Technorati performed some extensive analysis on the amount of forethought and insight that I display in the contents of each well-thought-out post, and determined that for the subject of "iPhone" I certainly have some authority.

I guess not...