And here’s the full list of Technorati Top 100 Most Linked-to Blogs, as of 17 Jan 2008.

1) Engadget Blogsmith
2) Gizmodo Gawker
3) Techcrunch Wordpress
4) Huffington post Movable Type
5) Boing Boing Movable Type
6) Lifehacker Gawker
7) Ars Technica Custom
Mashable Wordpress
9) Blog di Beppe Grillo Movable Type
10) icanhascheezburger Wordpress
11) Daily Kos Scoop
12) TMZ Entertainment BlogSmith
13) perez Hilton Wordpress
14) postSecret Hosted: BlogSpot
15) Seth Godin Hosted: Typepad
16) ReadWriteWeb Movable Type
17) proBlogger Wordpress
18) Official Google Blog Hosted: BlogSpot
19) treeHugger Movable Type
20) Smashing Magazine Wordpress
21) Kotaku, Gamers Guide Gawker [MT]*
22) Gigazine Expression Engine
23) Dosh Dosh Wordpress [Thanks Maki]
24) CopyBlogger Wordpress
25) Think progress Wordpress
26) The Consumerist Gawker
27) Valleywag Gawker
28) GigaOM Wordpress
29) ShoeMoney Wordpress
30) Crooks and Liars Wordpress
31) Scobleizer Wordpress
32) at0mica Wordpress
33) TUaW - Unofficial apple Blog Blogsmith
34) uthink plone
35) Gawker Gawker*
36) Search Engine Land Movable Type
37) Joystiq Blogsmith
38) a List apart Custom (Happy Cog)
39) Drudge Report Custom
40) Talking points Memo MovableType [with ‘limited customization’ -thanks Josh Marshall]
41) Neatorama Wordpress
42) O’Reilly Radar Movable Type
43) Threat Level- Wired Typepad
44) How to Change the World Typepad
45) Microsiervos Movable Type [thanks Nacho]
46) Lifehack.org Wordpress
47) dooce Drupal
48) Engadget Japanese Blogsmith
49) Zen Habits Wordpress
50) Blogoscoped (unofficial Google) Custom [Thanks philip and Haochi]
51) autoblog Blogsmith
52) NewsBusters.org Drupal
53) Xiaxue Blogspot
54) “43 Folders” Drupal
55) Download Squad Blogsmith
56) The Daily Dish/andrew Sullivan Typepad
57) ancora Imparo CommunityServer
58) Secret Diary of Steve Jobs BlogSpot
59) TheWrongadvices.com Wordpress
60) Jauhari Wordpress
61) Google Operating System blog BlogSpot
62) Noscope Wordpress
63) Matt Cutts Wordpress
64) The Superficial Custom
65) The Corner/National Review Custom
66) The Sartorialist BlogSpot
67) Deadspin Gawker*
68) antbag.com Wordpress
69) Hot air Wordpress
70) kottke.org Movable Type
71) SEOBook Drupal
72) Crunchgear Wordpress
73) Freakonomics NYTimes Custom
74) Vacuous Virtuoso Wordpress
75) SlashFilm Wordpress
76) stereogum Movable Type
77) Gothamist Movable Type
78) Fanhouse aOL Sports Blogsmith
79) TorrentFreak Wordpress
80) Joel on Software CityDesk (Fog Creek)
81) Dlisted Drupal
82) Instapundit Movable Type
83) Make: Blog Movable Type
84) podbean Faq Wordpress (podbean runs off Joomla!)
85) Coding Horror (“..an ancient form of..”)Movable Type
86 incorporated suberversion Wordpress
87) podbean News Wordpress (podBean runs off Joomla!)
88) Jalopnik Gawker *
89) Global Voices Online Wordpress
90) Yanko Design Wordpress
91) Go Fug Yourself Typepad
92) Mac Rumours Custom (Thanks Dr. Q)
93) Techdirt MovableType
94) Gadget Lab Typepad
95) Meta Filter Custom
96) Bad Behavior Wordpress
97) Little Green Footballs Movable Type (I think)
98) Dilbert Blog Typepad
99) Crave |Cnet Wordpress
100) Daring Fireball Custom

source from : CMSWIRE 

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (a picture, a geographic map, a blog entry, a video clip etc.), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification and search of information.Tags are usually chosen informally and personally by item author/creator or by its consumer/viewers/community. Tags are typically used for resources such as computer files, web pages, digital images, and internet bookmarks (both in social bookmarking services, and in the current generation of web browsers - see Flock). For this reason, “tagging” has become associated with the Web 2.0 buzz. Many people associate “tagging” with the idea of the semantic web, however some believe that tagging may not be having a positive effect on the overall drive towards the semantic web.

Tagging example
A web page hosted on a web server or blog server which supports tagging, might have the tags Baseball, Yankees, Tickets, Away Games, and Discounts. A human reader can probably tell the purpose of the page by quickly scanning the list of tags. Typically, the server would display the tags in a list on that page, with each tag displayed as a web link leading to an index page listing all web pages which use that tag. This allows a reader to locate quickly all pages which have been associated with the term Yankees. If the server supports tag searching, a reader would be able to find all pages that use a particular set of tags, such as Yankees and Tickets.

If the page’s author wishes to reclassify the page, all that is required is for them to change the list of tags. In this case, the author could add the tags Blue Jays, and Paypal to their page. All connections between pages are automatically tracked and updated by the server software. There is no need to relocate the page within a complex hierarchy of categories.

While using tags in such an organizational system is flexible and easy, tagging is not without its drawbacks. Typically there is no information about the meaning or semantics of a tag. For example, the tag “apple” might refer to the fruit, Apple Inc., the Beatles’ music label, or Gwyneth Paltrow’s baby. This lack of semantic distinction in tags can lead to inappropriate connections between items. Additionally, selection of “tag terms” is highly individualistic. Different people may use drastically different terms to describe the same concept: for example items related to a version of Apple Computer’s operating system might be tagged both “Mac OS X”, “Tiger”, and possibly many other terms. Users of tagging systems must make judgments, based on the number of connections and the choices of “tag terms”, whether possible connections between items are valid for their interests.

Tag classification, and the concept of connecting sets of tags between web/blog servers, has led to the rise of folksonomy classification over the Internet, the concept of social bookmarking, and other forms of social software. Larger-scale folksonomies tend to address some of the problems of tagging, as astute users of tagging systems will monitor/search the current use of “tag terms” within these systems, and tend to use existing tags in order to easily form connections to related items. In this way, evolving folksonomies define a set of tagging conventions through eventual group consensus, rather than by use of a formalized standard.

Although “tagging” is often promoted as an alternative to organization by a hierarchy of categories, more and more online resources seem to use a hybrid system, where items are organized into broad categories, with finer classification distinctions being made by the use of tags.

Memetag
A memetag (or meme tag) is a blog tag that is included in all posts that reference a meme. When a meme is started on a blog — for example, ‘your top five favourite movies’ — the meme tag is included at the foot of the text of each post that responds to the meme invitation.

By including a memetag, bloggers are recognising the initial creator of the meme and allowing them to track how their meme has spread across the blogosphere through the use of social media tools such as Technorati.

While inclusion of a memetag is not mandatory, it is done in the spirit of information sharing across the web and is a system based on trust.

Example:

A blogger invites five other bloggers to list their ‘top five songs of all time’.

Those bloggers publish their list, incude the memetag that links back to the original invite, then invites five more bloggers and asks them to include a link to the original post.

The next five list their top five songs of all time, each linking back to the original post using the memetag. Each of them invites five more friends.

And so on.

p/s : wanno says “Hi.. U’ve been tagged… check it out“. But… Sorry, I don’t know nothing about tag. She tag me, I tag her back. Can U explain for me? Why U tag me?

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