Some suggestion that this method of categorising posts isn't universally effective? Koranteng's Toli: "When you do, say, technorati.com/tag/how-to, you don't get the freshblog thing in the technorati list, although you can get to it from the delicious list, so I kind of miss the point of what they are documenting in those two pages ..."

I've commented up the post to try to clarify the point, and thought a bit more about what a technorati tag is & what it does. Technorati bill tags as "The real-time web, organized by you"

If you do a search for how-to, for example, Technorati acknowledge that "700 posts from 217 blogs match this tag" but only display the 20 posts most recently tagged with that term in their search results. In fact, the technorati tag homepage only promises to point to "current tags." Tag search results are mostly useful for seeing what's going on right now rather than as a searchable archive.

Update: Another blog tries it out. Tor's Rants now has categories using this method. The links are there, although they may be somewhat obscured by an e-bay ad.....

Update 6/15: And another. Daniel's Blog is categorising with del.icio.us too. I'm not sure how I feel about his duplication of my whole post, or about being confused with an historical figure, but at least there's a link back here...

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