Taking Tags and Making Them Something

Technorati took a page from the Flickr playbook this week and made Tags, which they call "the real-time web, organized by you." It's a great idea, the same way that Flickr made it a great: you can share information that's properly tagged very easily. Take a picture of a cat? give your Flickr photo a tag of cat, then also give the blog entry you write about the photo of your cat on Flickr a tag of cat.

But this also enables something else...

MeBlogging.

Imagine you set a tag of your name (i.e., tombridge) for each of your posts that you author, on all of the blogs that you participate on (for me, this numbers somewhere around five right now) in a link hidden inside a <div> with its style display tag set to None. You have just signed this post in a method that Technorati's tags can read and combine. You have just created your own meblog at http://www.technorati.com/tag/tagname.

So, I've gone through and added a few of my Flickr photos, and a few blog entries to the tombridge tag, go check it out.

Much love to Sean Bonner, whose baby this is. I'm just here for the popcorn.

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Comments:

Here is a neat tool to help you create your tags. Enjoy,

http://russell.supersized.org/archives/75-Technorati-Tagger-Too.html

Posted by Russell on May 8, 2005 — 3:06 PM