Over the weekend Feedster announced that they have joined the tagging revolution. They’re coming at it from a different angle than Technorati Tags, though: Technorati harvests author tags from blog content, while Feedster’s new “Tag This” UI widget allows anonymous reader tagging. While Technorati is now tracking how authors tag their content, Feedster is more interested in what the readers say. Feedster-feeder Scott Rafer invokes Dan Gillmor on this topic: the readers know more than the author.

Feedster ‘Tag This’, and Vague Predictions Regarding the Future of Tagging | the institute of hybernautics Submitted by Brian Del Vecchio on May 24, 2005 - 2:27pm.