I really like Technorati tags. Maybe it's the addition of the photos from Flickr. I don't know. I like the layout.
Another thing I'm attracted to that I first enjoyed in 43 Things, are the lists of tags whose sizes vary depending how often they are used. I want one of those lists on my own blog page and wish they were on every blog. Hoping that Marsedit will jump on this an make it easier for me to tag and that TypePad will make it easy to summarize all my tags as a multi-sized tag list. If this meme gained adoption, you could grok a blog's nature in a single glance.
Today I started putting some tags into my latest few posts. Once they were there, I could click on them and instantly get to the Technorati page for that tag. I like that. It feels like a great expansion of the connectedness my posts have to the rest of the web. Of course, it would be handy to write the tags into someplace in Marsedit and be able to immediately link to those Technorati tag pages. It would help me write the post.
I like trying various words as tags to see which one has the most tag-juice. I'm really enjoying this tagging trend right now. And... I created a category called Tagging which was the most popular tag about tags and tagging.
It seems to me that any blogger would want to tag their posts. In the overall scheme of the work associated with creating a post, putting tags in is a small part that would almost surely pay for itself in increased readership. Tags hook you into the blogspace in a wonderful way. Looks like a no-brainer to me.
Even if I'm the only one who clicks the tags, I like it. I like to treat me blog as a homepage of sorts anyway. It's one of my launchpads. Tags add a whole new dimension to my homepage.
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