Technorati and Tags

David Weinberger (and others) are posting about Technorati’s new service, which will help facilitate the bottom-up surfacing, or “emergence” of blog posts that may be attractive to someone looking for interesting and useful blog posts.

I and a couple of colleagues have been working on developing Qumana, which is an easy-to-use and versatile blog-post assembly and authoring tool. One of it’s core features is the ability to easily tag blog pots with both structured metadata (controlled vocabularies) and user-defined metadata (subjective tags).

The ultimate capability we want to create would result in Qumana becoming what I have termed a “relationship engine for keeping people posted”. Using Qumana to build and then tag, and then publish richly-tagged blog posts will facilitate connecting people through connecting ideas, and we believe it will be highly useful in purpose-driven social networks focused on an area of professional or personal interest - we are calling them Wired Tribes.

Drag n’ drop, tag, post and then connect .. with others who are interested in similar issues.

It will be very inteersting to see what develops of all this … less hierarchical, less top-down driven expertise, and more surfacing of expertise and knowledge from the Long Tail, I think. And very wirearchical, in my opinion. But I would think that, no ?