A fast and furious start to the Syndicate Conference in NYC this morning as Jeff Jarvis shouted to the heavens - conferences suck!
Jeff then cried for help from the audience and we were all able and willing to help him out.
I talked about all the websites that grab my feed, syndicating me without permission that I now leverage through ads.
I really got into a I'm mad as hell and I not going to take it anymore mode when the subject of tagging came up. Technorati sucks - I cried knowing that David Sifry was in the room.
At Mix06 we all included Techornati tags in our blog posts to create a virtual conversation of the conference we were experiencing. My posts never made it to the tagged site, so in my finale post Tag This I included about eight tags and again not one of them landed on Techonori.
David is wonderful at giving tech support and he came up to the first row, sat down beside me and with our laptops sitting side by side he quickly found the problem.
I was in Techonorati purgatory, but why was I quarantined on a site that exists to enable conversations? Is this censorship? Discrimination? Or just a technological glitch?
The Web mirrors the real world and in our world people do politicize and discriminate with or without knowing it everyday. Let's face it Technorati, Tech-memerandum and Techcrunch are all Silicon Valley centric and I inhabit a much larger circle.