In your excellent retort to Stowe Boyd’s post on ‘OpenTags’, you point out that anyone can put a rel=tag on their URLs - and you DON’T have to use Technorati’s domain.

Then I’d suggest that you turn off the advertising on Dave Weinberger’s blog - ’cause it sure looks like it says Technorati Tags - to me.

Secondly - if smart people like Jeff Jarvis and Stowe are calling for it - then there must be something to their complaints. By defintion is somebody bitches about something - there has to be SOMETHING there - right?

Your retort implies (as I happen to know) that Technorati has figured out that having the Technorati domain in the tag URL is not the ONLY way to do it - so you’re speaking the right line - now.

But that’s NOT how it was launched and so subsequently - everyone still uses the original code you guys distributed which DID use the Tehcnorati domain in it. No amount of backpeddling will change that.

So now you have the problem of the mis-conceptions that Jeff and Stowe have harped on. Sorry - it’s not my fault, I’m just pointing out - what’s up. (This is where I say “Don’t shoot the messenger” - I love Technorati - and I’m just trying to make sure you realize what it’s like - for us.)

Thirdly - though I totally understand you and grok you and have been through this with Tantek, Matt, Rohit and others - I STILL wanna point out that the technique you refer to - is just ONE way to use, store and access micro-content.

I sure hope you guys and gals are open minded to OTHER techniques for sharing, tagging, aggregating and in general - pushing RSS beyond it’s current limits. I call it micro-content. Others do too.

Somewhere in there - your cult decided to call it microformats. Kevin - you and I have been around too long to care about what it’s called - ’cause we ARE talking about the same thing! Right?

Briefly stated - we need microcontent feeds.

We need shared servers.

Life isn’t ONLY about search engines spidering and indexing microformats. That’s an approach a SEARCH ENGINE company would take - DUH! But to me - I want MORE than just search engines storing micro-content and that means they have to access, store and index this m-c via feeds, pages and legacy systems - as well.

So you know I love you - Kevin. Right?

We’ve known each other along time.

So please put on some other glasses (say maroon instead of rose colored) and see how the NON-search engine world sees this. Though microformats rock - and we’ll be supporting the hell out of them, we’ll also be supporting micro-content in feeds - as well.

If that’s OK with you and the microformats dudes and dudesses?

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