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thomas n. burg – on social media, software tools and its benefits for us, and sometimes gossip.

March 7th, 2005

That’s def. an issue. A user should own his topics and should not rely on a third party. She should be able to migrate her topics from server to server from application to application. It’s metadata after all. Should be personal.

Why Tags matter: “David Weinberger has an excellent post on ‘Why Tags matter‘. At the end he puts in the Technorati Tags on the subject (taxonomy tags berkman )

I wonder if Dave cares that those tags are controlled and rendered by a proprietary company. Not that Technorati is THAT proprietary – but calling something a ‘Technorati Tag’ sure sounds pretty branded to me.

I can’t help think that some sort of OpenTopics is needed. I don’t think anybody should control the Topics of the blogosphere and Web 2.0.

I wonder if Dave agrees with me or not?”
Via Marc’s Voice
(Via unmediated.)

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