Explosive growth in use of tags on blog posts

We’re experiencing explosive growth in the use of tags on blog posts per David Sifry’s state of the blogosphere.

People are clicking on tags, people are using tags, Google features tagged media in its results pages. Tags adoption has become a phenomenon across the Live Web, and we are seeing a correlative explosive growth at Technorati……The explosive growth [seen by] Technorati index is mirrored in social media sites throughout the Web, including Flickr, YouTube, and the like. This shared phenomenon allows us to marry the wealth of information in our index with the wealth of that stored on social media sites across the Live Web through the shared construct of tags.

For the uninitiated, Sifry explains “a tag is a category or descriptor that someone (often the creator) assigns to it. This descriptor literally hangs off the media that’s published to the Web much in the same way a luggage tag hangs off your suitcase — easily identifying the bag.”

With internet users publishing on all different platforms and to all different communities of interest, tags help categorize social media. Tags also effectively track what may be a hot topic of discussion at any given moment.

For the legal profession, tagging allows us to track discussion by areas of practice and niche subjects within them.

Most blog publishing platforms allow you to easily add tags on any number of categories as add a post to your blog.