You have misunderstood. Richard is using the <category> tag in his *feed* to specify the tag for the blog post. He is not using a link in the blog post.
- Andreas On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:49:06 +0200, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > OK, I looked at Richard's source code (which I probably should have done > right away) and I see the problem. > > Now this is something I've argued against over at Microformats.org, but > Technorati gets the category name from the URL you link to. > > Normally, if you had a rel="tag" link URL like: > > http://example.com/this/is/it/NewTube > > Then your category would be "NewTube". I.e., Technorate looks at the > last > "word" (if you want to call it that) in URL. > > Richard's link URL (for videobloggingweek2006) is: > > http://www.richardshow.com/?cat=7 > > Which does NOT have videobloggingweek2006 as the last "word". Which is > the > problem Technorati is having. > > Note, Technorati does this. But I (and others) don't like this and think > that the word that you are using to make the rel="tag" link should > matter. > However (last we discussed this), Technorati doesn't care about that. > (And > they don't care about the title attribute either.) > > > See ya > > On 4/2/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Richard was using categories in Wordpress so Technorati is supposed to >> pick up from his feed (which it did, but Richard was using the tag >> "video >> blog week 2006" and not "videobloggingweek2006"). He wasn't using >> relTag. >> >> - Andreas >> >> On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:33:34 +0200, Charles Iliya Krempeaux >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > On 4/2/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:23:02 +0200, Richard Show >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > [...] >> > >> > >> >> (when I got to http://www.technorati.com/tag/videobloggingweek2006 it >> >> > doesn't show anything, even though I did the update/ping thing with >> my >> >> > vlog) >> >> >> >> You're at <URL: >> >> http://www.technorati.com/tag/Video%20Blog%20Week%202006 > >> >> - in other words you need to kill the spaces from the category name. >> >> >> >> >> > There's another important point when doing this tagging. >> > >> > In the HTML code that is generated, you need to have rel="tag" in >> > hyperlink >> > for your tag. >> > >> > So, for example, you'd need something like this: >> > >> > <a rel="tag" >> > href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Video%20Blog%20Week%202006 >> > ">...</a> >> > >> > >> > Also, you do NOT have to make your tag links point to Technorati. >> They >> > can >> > point to any site you want. So, for example, instead of using: >> > >> > http://www.technorati.com/tag/Video%20Blog%20Week%202006 >> > >> > You could have used: >> > >> > http://example.com/just/some/stuff/Video%20Blog%20Week%202006 >> > >> > >> > >> > Hope that helps. >> > >> > >> > See ya >> > >> > -- >> > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. >> > >> > charles @ reptile.ca >> > supercanadian @ gmail.com >> > >> > developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ >> > >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> > Make Television >> > http://maketelevision.com/ >> >> >> >> -- >> Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen >> <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > >> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. >> > > > -- > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. > > charles @ reptile.ca > supercanadian @ gmail.com > > developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Make Television > http://maketelevision.com/ -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
