What Do Tags Mean?
Tim Bray: IâÂÂm almost convinced that this new Technorati Tags thing is important, but IâÂÂm 100% convinced that I donâÂÂt understand where itâÂÂs going or what the implications are. [cut] It turns out you can also just put <dc:subject>foo</dc:subject> in your feed (assuming youâÂÂve declared the dc: prefix properly) which is shorter and (much & all as I love Technorati) arguably more open. Except for, as a Web-Architectural kinda guy, I like the idea of identifying categories with URIs. Except for, the whole point of that is that everyone can have their own, and TechnoratiâÂÂs setup only recognizes the ones beginning http://technorati.com/.
Randy: You can definately have a URI tag scheme that is open. Unfortunately, it won't be a URL, it'll be a URN. Tim?
