http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/01/20/not-following-tags/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:56:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/01/20/not-following-tags/#comment-3753 Mike Linksvayer » Going overboard with Wikipedia tags Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:01:27 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2005/01/20/not-following-tags/#comment-3753 [...] The second reason I link to Wikipedia preferentially2 is that Wikipedia article URLs conveniently serve as “tags, as specified by the rel=”tag” microformat. If Technorati and its competitors happen to index this blog this month, it will show up in their tag-based searches, the names of the various Wikipedia articles I’ve linked to serving to name tags. I’ve never been enthusiastic about the overall utility of author applied tags, but I figure linking to Wikipedia is not as bad as linking to a taggergator. [...] [...] The second reason I link to Wikipedia preferentially2 is that Wikipedia article URLs conveniently serve as “tags, as specified by the rel=”tag” microformat. If Technorati and its competitors happen to index this blog this month, it will show up in their tag-based searches, the names of the various Wikipedia articles I’ve linked to serving to name tags. I’ve never been enthusiastic about the overall utility of author applied tags, but I figure linking to Wikipedia is not as bad as linking to a taggergator. [...]

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