BlawgThink: Tag, You’re It

Another fantastic session!

This one was presented by Dennis Kennedy and Jeff Beard and involved some advanced technologies (many tagging related) for blogging.

Many of the technologies/services I already use, such as Flickr, del.icio.us, and Technorati.

However, there were a number of cool ideas/services/sites which I don’t use, and in some cases, didn’t know existed! Here’s a few that I want to explore more:

In the vein of beefing up your feeds, there’s FeedBurner and FeedBlitz. FeedBlitz lets you create an e-mail RSS subscription. I think FeedBurner might allow the same thing, again, I’m going to check out FeedBurner very soon.
In the “letting the world know about my blog” there’s Ping-O-Matic and Pingoat. Both of these services allow you to ping one site, who in turn go out an ping a ton of different blog indexes. I agree with Dennis–I don’t see how these services can make money, but hey, that’s not my problem.

I already use the hell out of Flickr and del.icio.us, so I’m down with the tags. TagCloud offers a way to create a cloud of tags based on your posts. Sounded interesting.

And finally, hosting Podcasts and (possibly) VideoCasts can take up some serious space and bandwidth. libsyn and VideoEgg aim to help with those problems, respectively.

Finally, they touched on some services like Rojo, Rollyo, and OPML. Rojo and Rollyo sounded a bit interesting, but not at the moment, and given how I feel about Dave Winer, I’m avoiding OPML as much as possible.