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By: Kevin Marks

Kevin Marks — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:42:45 +0000

Hi Jeff, I go into more detail over at many2many on how to do a decentralised, tagged restaurant review model Stowe, while you may like search engines sending you trackbacks, I think many bloggers would not. You're free to link to us or not from your tags, and you should have that control, not any passing spider.

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:36:12 +0000

The Tags on Gawker's blogs are powered by the MT Tags plugin we published, and those tags are automatically picked up by Technorati when you ping them.

By: Stowe Boyd

Stowe Boyd — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:27:37 +0000

Ryan – That’s only half of the open tag model. Note many people have been creating closed tags on their posts because they then point to the Technorati tagspace. If you create your own tagspace you have to actually manage it. I am about to collapse my categories and tags together for Get Real, for example, so I will rely on MovableType to make my tagspace in the form of category archives. But the other half of the open tag model, that you don’t mention, is that Technorati and other tag services should use trackback to point to my blog posts, instead of me creating them. So if I have posted a piece and tagged it “thai”, Technorati would track back to that entry, instead of me creating a URL pointing to the technorati location “http://technorati.com/tags/thai”. The current model is only partially open, which for all intents and purposes I consider closed.

By: ryan king

ryan king — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:23:11 +0000

Stowe’ 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/*.

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.

I hate to say it, but RTFM.

By: Baher Al Hakim

Baher Al Hakim — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:37:32 +0000

Jeff,

Tags is way more practical than categories, and you can have tags in wordpress via two plugins.
Cat2Tag Plugin http://www.agkamai.com/archives/404/cat2tag-release/
Allows you to add new tags on the fly, while creating your new post.

Popular Tags Plugin http://www.squible.com/2005/07/09/tag-happy-popular-tags-plugin/
Turns the traditional view of categories into a super cool Tag Cloud.

You can check my blog http://www.technoogle.com/ to see them implemented.

By: Nick Douglas

Nick Douglas — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:37:07 +0000

Damn it, Jeff, I should have read this before I switched to IceRocket tags. Ah well, when Blogebrity moves to MT, we’ll work something out.

By: Bradley Allen

Bradley Allen — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:10:03 +0000

Hi there, folks. The following section from Technorati’s Help page explains that tags are ALREADY open. WIDE open. Yup. It’s true. Please read.

http://www.technorati.com/help/tags.html

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You do not have to link to Technorati. You can link to any URL that ends in something conforming to the tag standard. For example, these tag links would also be included on our Tag pages:

iPod
Gravity
Chihuahua

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So. As you can see, you just need a valid URL that conforms to the tag standard. No need for any Technorati in your URL.. it’s *your* tag, Technorati just picks it up.

By: Enigma America

Enigma America — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:19:25 +0000

Jeff,
I like the new template for the blog. Keep up the good work, dude….