Adding a blog to Technorati

I recently added this blog to Technorati.

Technorati is an important step to getting your blog out on the net.

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[2] The name Technorati is a blend of the words technologyand literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism. ^Wikipedia

It was a quite straight forward process:

1. Go to http://technorati.com 
2. Sign up
3. You will receive a confirmation email, you need to click on the link in the email to activate your account
4. Once you have signed in, click on your username (top right on the navigation bar)]
5. Scroll right to the bottom to a section called "Claim your blog" enter your blog URL and click claim
6. Enter some details about your blog and hit "Claim"
7. You will shortly receive an email with a special code, for example: VAH4ZHBDST9M
8. Next create a blogpost referencing the code in the posting (as I did above)
9. Once posted, Re-log back into Technorati, scroll to the bottom and click on "Check Claim"

Your blog should now be listed within a few days on Technorati.

Is Technorati a waste of time? Is there other places a blog should also be listed? Let me know your views