I’ve now started adding Technorati/other tags to selected postings – the syntax I am using appears to be correct:

…but to date I have no records of any referrals (“referrerals”? 😎) to the (admittedly small) number of target postings, but then it just struck me:

Personally I never can be arsed to regularly go look at technorati.com/tag/topic more than once; this harks back to an article at which one of Alan Coopersmith’s mailings pointed me, the paper making a plausible argument regarding why “directories” like, Yahoo, [directory.google.com] (etc) have never really taken off.

The short version of that argument: Joe Average is not and never has been uniquely fit to categorise his own data/postings/articles/website, and nor has anyone else. This fits squarely with my own longstanding prejudice regarding meta-tags

RSS improves matters, but the truth of my behaviour is that I ignore Technorati and go to [del.icio.us] instead, and once there I click primarily on links that lots of other people have bookmarked (ie: voted-for), and I click secondarily on those which catch my eye for some reason. Just skimming a topical tagged index without the benefit of many eyes voting beforehand, leads to wasting too much time reading vanity and hot-air.

So: Technorati is doomed to be as irrelevant as [dmoz.org] – except for the egoboost, scoring and indexing features it provides to bloggers themselves? 😎