The blog tracking tool Technorati has followed the lead of (and backfilled with data from) Flickr, del.iciol.us and others with an implementation of the tag taxonomy for blogposts. This could be a useful way of getting to information but I think that their implementation is going to be abused pretty quickly.
There are two ways to contribute:* If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom (like Movable Type, WordPress, TypePad, Blogware, Radio), just use the included category system and make sure you're publishing RSS/Atom and we'll automatically include your posts! Your categories will be read as tags.
* If your blog software does not support those things, don't worry, you can still play. To add your post to a Technorati Tag page, all you have to do is "tag" your post by including a special link. Like so:<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname]" rel="tag">[tagname]</a>
The [tagname] can be anything, but it should be descriptive. Please only use tags that are relevant to the post. (my emphasis) No need to include the brackets.
Posted by Paul in Search Tech at January 14, 2005 05:19 PM | 0 Comments
