Dave Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society who has been an early tag-vocate. “With tags we have people who use information telling us how it should be organized. And it turns out that there is a lot of wisdom.”
Many bloggers file their stories under category names, so that a story about the Gomery inquiry is stored under the category “Canadian politics” or “Gomery”. Technorati uses those category names as tags, so that every blog post that has been tagged as “Gomery” can be found in one place on the Technorati web site.
investment support from such heavy-hitters as Esther Dyson, Amazon.com, and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreesen. The del.icio.us site itself has more than 80,000 users, and is one of the hottest topics and technologies among influential bloggers.
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