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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Personal relationships and privacy

Do not assume that you know everything there is to know about a writer simply because you read their weblog on a regular basis. Any judgements you make will be based on the information they have provided you about themselves, which is probably vague, incomplete or embellished. Whatever opinion you form on them as people, or their life as a whole, is probably best kept to yourself. Remember, you are the reader. An obvious exception to this would be if someone were asking for advice or opinions.

Never contact the writer for more details on events or personal information than what they have already provided on the site. Chances are if the information you seek isn’t readily available, they have found it too personal or innapropriate to share. If you are close to the person they will eventually tell you privately, so intrusive questions are not necessary, just leave it alone. If you are meant to know, you will.

If you have a real life relationship with the writer, remember that communication is very important. View weblogs as online journals, no less sacred than a diary hidden between the mattresses. First of all let them know that you read their site, especially if they did not tell you personally.

If they do not want you reading it, or suddenly stop posting entries, ask them why and if necessary, stop going to the site. It is important that as a friend, relative, co-worker or whatever you may be to the writer, that your presence at their weblog not impede their ability to express themselves. Remember this is their outlet. They may not want you to read certain things they might write about you or others you care about, in order to spare your feelings, avoid drama or maintain their privacy. You should respect this and immediately stop going to the site, and never relay any information you gather at their site to others who might use it against them.

If someone writes about you and you don’t appreciate it, approach them about it. Try to remain calm and polite. Explain that you are entitled to your privacy as well. There are many compromises that can be reached from using vague nicknames to protect your anonymity, or not mentioning you at all. If you are upset because they are writing negative things about you, be reasonable, try to see if there is a way to resolve the issues and mend your relationship with the writer. If that doesn’t seem to be possible, stop going to the website. They will eventually get bored and move on.

Ex-friends, lovers and estranged family members who have been cut out of the writer’s life should refrain from reading their journal. If the relationship has ended, there is no reason you should get daily updates on the person’s life. If you simply can’t help yourself, do it quietly, and never repeat what you read or use it to hurt the writer.

Feedback and initiating contact

If they have a guestbook, sign it. Compliments will always be graciously accepted and appreciated. Criticisms and reproaches are fine if you have a problem with something, but try to remain constructive and not be an asshole. No one is forcing you to give out your opinions, so if you don’t have anything remotely positive to say, it may be best to keep quiet.

When contacting a person for the first time, have a clue. If they have a detailed biography and personal information that describes their life from the day they were born, chances are they won’t appreciate you wasting their time asking them how old they are or where they live. Writers put a lot of thought and time into their sites, so take the time to read the information they provide you with before you ask for more.

Never assume a writer owes you any response. They may receive from a few to hundreds of messages per day. Some will gladly write back immediately, others will never reply. Try not to take it personally, because chances are it has more to do with their schedule than anything else. If you get upset and nasty about feeling rejected, you will probably ruin any chances you had of befriending the person.

Don’t delude yourself into thinking that you will be as important to the writer as he/she is to you. Remember, you are peering in on their life, sharing their thoughts, and though they may become quite special to you, you remain a mystery to them. If they are cold or unreceptive to your advances, keep in mind that you are a stranger to them at this point, and they may or may not want to keep it that way. It’s entirely their choice.

Don’t be a psycho stalker.

You shouldn’t contact people with messenger services unless they list their handles on their website. If you got it from someone else, forget you ever had it, they probably meant to keep it somewhat private.

A writer has the right to stop writing at any time for any reason they see fit, and at no point must they justify or explain these reasons to you or any of their readers. It’s their weblog, they can do with it as they please.

Offensive language and materials

The internet is a place that encourages free and creative expression, and as in any environment where people are given this freedom, conflict may arise. If an author uses language or materials that offend you, leave. Contacting the person or their isp, demanding they remove the content or change their ways is absurd because you are viewing their content of your own free will by visiting their site. Simply stop going there and you won’t have to see whatever it is you don’t like about the site. An obvious exception to this would be if someone were providing illegal materials, in which case it would be appropriate to complain to their isp or contact wuthorities.

Copyright and courtesy

Never ask someone to make you a layout, to help with your site or show you how to do a certain script or graphic effect that they have on their site, unless they specifically offer their help. There are plenty of tutorials available to help you, just use a search engine to find what you need.

Never use anything off a person’s site, be it writing, images or html code, unless they say otherwise. People are very attached to their work and don’t usually respond well when others help themselves to it. Copyright is protected by law and in effect the minute something is created, whether the author has a © notice or not. There are online tools where you can learn about copyright laws like What is Copyright?and Redistribution In Graphics Has To Stop.

Under no circumstances should you ever direct link anything, this includes link buttons and any other graphics the writer may offer. Direct linking is when you type something like to display the yahoo link button, instead of actually saving it and uploading it on to your server. It is essentially bandwidth theft, because it uses data transfer, and the owner of the server has to pay for it. Always save the image and upload it to your own server unless the author specifically states you can do otherwise.

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