Dave Sifry responded to my recent post on Remote Tagging, telling me that what I want already is supported:

Stowe, we already do this, and support people who link using rel="tag" without necessarily pointing to technorati.com.

This surprised me, so I went to Technorati and looked up the Tags description and found out that, yes, something nearly exactly like what I want is supported:

[from Technorati: Using Technorati Tags]

You do not have to link to Technorati. You can link to any URL that ends in something conforming to the tag standard. For example, these tag links would also be included on our Tag pages:

• <a href="http://apple.com/ipod" rel="tag">iPod</a>
  
• <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity" rel="tag">Gravity</a>
  
• <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/chihuahua" rel="tag">Chihuahua</a>
  

So, this allows me to create a tag in a blog post that associates a tag with someother post (or URL), basically a remote tag. But it isn't in the more normal conversational form:

"over at <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2005/06/stowe_floats_a.html" rel="tag:socialarchitecture">Marc's Voice</a>"

This would have to be written differently:

"over at Marc's Voice, he has some comments about <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2005/06/stowe_floats_a.html" rel="tag:socialarchitecture">social architecture</a> worth reading"

What I don't understand is what Technorati does with all the social information: I have never noticed a Technorati tag that displays the information that a tag like 'social architecture' is associated with a particular post at a blog, such as Marc's Voice, but has been created by a third party, in this case, at Get Real. That the critical social glue, here, not just the abilty to create the remote link.

So, I am going to create one here, as an example, and I will see what the outcome is.

Marc Canter agrees with my call for Death To All Panel Sessions as I wrote the other day.

This should lead to Marc's post being associated with the Death To All Panel Sessions tag at Technorati, as I understand it.

More to follow.