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are you sure cameron can do that?

http://istwitterdown.com/

Summary of this post:

"A bunch of companies tried to do halloween logos, but they're ugly. Other companies didn't try so those companies are boring."

Tough job you have there.

Someone should invest in supr.c.ilio.us.

Please note that this markup will only produce meaningful hCards in the cases where the Implied-N-Optimization applies. See Drew's writeup for more details.

Thanks for the link. :D

sorry. my markup got all destroyed in that comment. There was supposed to be an <ol> in there.

I think having a URL as a tag has some great benefits:

I don't think it implies that others who've used the same tag mean precisely the same thing, just as is the case in folksonomies such as del.icio.us.
You don't have to link to Technorati's tag space if that doesn't suit you. You can link to any tag space you like.
Have a URL allows readers to see some explanation of the tag. For example I link my tags to wikipedia often (even though I work for Technorati :)). The wikipedia explains what I mean by the tag. Technorati tags are useful in that they say "this post is a part of that conversation" and work pretty well for that.
<span rel="tag"></span> is not valid (X)HTML, nor is the 'rel' attribute meaninful in this case. As it is defined as: "describ[ing] the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute." With your proposal, there's no relationship to describe.


As I've said before regardin author tagging vs. reader tagging, it is obvious that they are different and and have different benefits. But I don't see why this is an argument against author tagging- they're not mutually exclusive.