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.

Tomorrow I’ll be in Munich to give a talk about corporate use cases of weblogs, wiki and the like. I’ll even showcase an app if time permits.
You’ll get the PDFs here:
For the screen,
for print