David Rothman writes “If you’re looking for up-to-date news on “ebooks,” you won’t find it at Technorati. The company’s tag operation seems to be in chaos, at least from an “ebooks” perspective. At 11:15 a.m today, I didn’t see a single link to TeleRead‘s e-book-and-library blog from posts made in the past seven days–even though TeleRead has done a bunch of e-book items in that time.
I sympathize with Technorati CEO Dave Sifry over his spam problem. But it’s still rather surrealistic to see Technorati’s “ebooks” tag category linking right now to “Internet Profits Ezine” but not to a noncommercial e-book blog.
Just what does this say about the future of tagging based on content providers’ descriptions? Gasp, perhaps Technorati needs a few human librarians to handle the “ebooks” tag. Meanwhile I’d be curious if other LISNews fans are finding similarly bizarre problems with Technorati’s tags in other categories.
In fairness to Technorati, Feedster has its own share of filtering problems. But at least it isn’t filtering out a whole week of TeleBlog posts. Needless to say, I really need to start thinking about paying more attention to other search, filtering and discovery services such as del.icio.us.
My story
Technorati stopped logging tags from me a couple months back. I messed with it for a day or so, and then gave up. Not worth the time to mess with.
TeleRead back in ‘ebooks’ tag category
Hooray! The TeleRead Web Blog is back in the “ebooks” tag category and other relevant ones within Technorati. Also, a sleazy blog with a highly suspicious ‘Harry Potter’ link–probably illegal–is gone. Many thanks for your responsiveness, Dave Sifry!