KILKENNY -- As much as I hate rough-cut folksonomies (they're spam magnets), I have to admit that if more people writing about Ireland tagged their content as Irishblogs, you could scoot into Technorati's Irishblogs area and read your daily snippet of Irish life from inside Technorati. Tagging with Irishblogs could create a simple surface look at what Irish bloggers were saying at the moment.
It's rudimentary because you will get too much signal from the techies who know how to work the tags from several angles--their own blogs, their pointer blogs, their FURLs, Flickrs and Delicious accounts. But for the newbies and for those writing about this blogging thing, Technorati's Irishblogs section lets them see what all the buzz is about.
And that is a good thing because it shows the extent of discussion in the two-way web.
It's important to mention that one of the reasons Flickr is such an enjoyable time-sink is its tags. You can start grazing in Flickr and find yourself in all sorts of interesting places. Flickr tags create the channels for the diversions. Flickr photos create the stickiness and hold your attention well beyond the time you may want to spend there.
Now go see this on Technorati's Irishblogs.
This has been an experiment in tag verbosity.
Bonus Link -- Kilkenny photoset, where I'm selling a four-bedroom house.
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