Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Anil Dash: Accountability and Culture in a Loosely Coupled World

Anil Dash: Accountability and Culture in a Loosely Coupled World:
So, to the point at hand: Technorati's invented a system of public aggregation. There's prior art, certainly, since at least 3 others had made taggregator applications. But mindshare makes a big difference, and Technorati's arrival here reflects that. Now I'm curious: How will this affect weblog culture? And since the service is new, how can it be changed or evolved to influence people to be more, well, social?


An interesting look at the social questions surrounding tagging as it relates to blogging. Anil dash is an executive at Six Apart, and extremely influential company in the blogging world. They are responsible for the Movable Type blogging package and the TypePad hosted blogging service, a fee-based competitor to Blogger's Blogspot.

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