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Peter Forret proposes acentralised universal metatagging systemaccessible to sites which aren’t natively tag-enabled.

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Having just spent an hour cleaning my RSS subscriptions and building an assortment ofsmart listsin order to bring my feed reading habits back into the realm of the practical, I stumbled upon an accurate description of the disease I was attempting to curb:Feed Overload Syndrome.

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On Wednesday, French periodicalLe Nouvel Observateurplaced a manifesto online titled “we are all pirates” denouncing the disproportionate repression against peer to peer users in France and calling for an open debate on the subject. The call has attracted more than 16.000 signatures, including those of celebrities and politicians who declare being hardened criminals under French law as they have all downloaded music at some point in time.Are these the first signs of an act of civil disobedience on a large scale? If everyone declared having downloaded copyrighted works could the repression continue? At the moment, they’re attempting to make examples of a few in order to scare the rest, but what if everyone stood up in “I am Spartacus” fashion?

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Datamonitor is indicating that the reason for Google’s recent expansion to domain registrar status could be for using its access to the list of recently transferred domains in order toclean up search results. Once a domain would change hands, its pagerank would be reset, avoiding pollution of the Google database from domains having gained pagerank in their previous life. This could, among other things, help stopsearch engine optimisation outfitssnake oil merchants from buying up high-ranking domains and turning them into marketable link pools.

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The spreading folksonomies/ethoclassification/ meme has finally hit the pages ofWired News. Meanwhile Clay Shirky points to thedel.icio.us spamming attemptsof user “DaFox” who obviously doesn’t know much abouthow search engines work, Ben Hyde plots thedistribution of tagsfor 4 entries, and Matt Biddulph uses a little DHTML trickery toinsert some del.icio.us functionality into the BBC website.

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Why build the mesh when you can add a layer on top of an existing one?SocialGriddefines itself as a social networking community/online dating service that uses Google to hook people up. You place a unique identification string on your personal page/weblog and others find you through search codes based on common interests.

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