July 24, 2005
open tags vs closed tags
Good stuff from Stowe Boyd. Open tags vs closed tags.
Jeff Jarvis has a new blog design. Much better. When people new to blogging ask me who to read, I always suggest Jeff. Always. Very little happens worth noting in the blogosphere without Jeff spotting it sooner than most.
Posted by hugh macleod at July 24, 2005 10:54 PM | TrackBackStowe’ right- tags should be open….
and they are. His entire premise off, because Technorati will recognize tags, even if they don’t point at http://technorati.com/tag/*.
Taggers should pick a tagspace that best explains what their tag means.
All you have to do is use rel=”tag” and ping technorati and the tags will be picked up by Technorati. Everything he suggests already works and was built in from the beginning.
Technorati is not trying to become a closed-wall tagspace monopoly.
Posted by: ryan king at July 25, 2005 10:13 AMRyan - That's only one half of the open tag model. The other half is that services like Technorati should use trackback to create the hard URL at my blog posts pointing to their own tagspace. I shouldn't have to do it. I agree that I can use "http://www.corante.com/getreal/tags/thai" plus rel="tag" and they will get the tags, but then there is no link at my blog to the technorati tagspace (and potentially dozens of others) out there.
Posted by: Stowe Boyd at July 25, 2005 10:06 PMHugh. I wish more people were willing to fact check *before* jumping in on the dog pile.
Tags, as used by Technorati and others are already completely open. Still in doubt, or merely confused? Please read Kevin Mark's recent post:
Posted by: Bradley Allen at July 26, 2005 8:34 AM