July 24, 2005

open tags vs closed tags

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Good stuff from Stowe Boyd. Open tags vs clo­sed tags.
Jeff Jar­vis has a new blog design. Much bet­ter. When peo­ple new to blog­ging ask me who to read, I always sug­gest Jeff. Always. Very little hap­pens worth noting in the blo­gosphere without Jeff spot­ting it soo­ner than most.

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4 Responses to “open tags vs closed tags”

  1. Ain’t it the truth?

    Via Gaping­Void
    Been there; have the scars.

  2. Stowe Boyd says:

    Ryan — That’s only one half of the open tag model. The other half is that ser­vi­ces like Tech­no­rati should use track­back to create the hard URL at my blog posts poin­ting to their own tags­pace. I shouldn’t have to do it. I agree that I can use “http://www.corante.com/getreal/tags/thai” plus rel=“tag” and they will get the tags, but then there is no link at my blog to the tech­no­rati tags­pace (and poten­tially dozens of others) out there.

  3. Hugh. I wish more peo­ple were willing to fact check *before* jum­ping in on the dog pile.
    Tags, as used by Tech­no­rati and others are already com­ple­tely open. Still in doubt, or merely con­fu­sed? Please read Kevin Mark’s recent post:
    http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/07/25/understanding_true_decentralisation_the_microformat_model.php