Technorati adds authority figures to results

The fine people at Technorati have added a new feature to their rankings. Rather than just showing you the ranking figures for your site, now you can see the "authority level" to which your site ranks. I can't seem to find a definition of how this authority level is defined.

For example, CenterNetworks currently has a rank of 2,762 (low is better) and an authority level of 837 (high is better).

Here are a few others from the realm:

• TechCrunch – 19 rank, 18,192 authority
• Mashable – 103 rank, 4,932 authority
• MicroPersuasion – 146 rank,  4,087 authority
• Jeremiah's Web Strategist – 2,218 rank, 951 authority
• Engadget shows #1 rank – 27,503 authority

Side note: The top 100 on Technorati shows TechCrunch as number 4 yet the actual page is showing 19. I am guessing that the top 100 page is not a live page.

So what's your authority level?