Joshua Porter , James Corbett , and TechCrunch have this one covered.

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Alex Barnett has an excellent post about tags and the Long Tail.

. . .What it says to me at least is that these Long Tails of individual minds are strongly and potentially algorithmically correlated to the Long Tails of taggers’ collective efforts.
. . . In other words, tagware =  natural Recommendation Networks

It also reminded me to take another look at an old post by James Corbett about tagging and the semantic web.

Note the quote from Jon Udell,

The social tagging services just get out of the way and try to let those conversations happen.

Let’s face it , tagging has become a revolution in it’s own right as to how people store, search, share and recive information

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I’m a strong believer in the disintermediation of classified ads, which is partially why I chose the name of this blog.

In fact, I heralded Edgeio as a sign of what was to come, especially to the CareerBuilder people I work with.

So, like James Corbett, I was confused by Mike Arrington’s wording of “decentralised job board for tech” , as you can see by my comment on the CrunchNotes post.

Here is the way decentralization for job sites must work.

1. Companies make RSS feeds of their sites available.

2. A decentralized but comprehensive OPML directory of jobs is wrought.

3. The directory is available under an open license.

That’s really all there is to it. And there will still be plenty of ways for service providers to make money.

Now if I were Mike Arrington, I’d continue the lucrative site he’s got. I think that’s great.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with adding those feeds to the Open Job Directory as well. (OPML heads can go to the directory , but it’s all OPML 2.0 inclusion, so you better Grazr it.)
Since the majority of jobs in the Open Job Directory are from paid listing sites, it looks like just another aggregator. But that’s not true. It includes feeds from O’Reilly, Edelman and even Edgeio (OPML) .

And once a critical mass of Businesses are publishing their job feeds, it’ll make those paid-listing sites irrelevant.

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Bush rendition of U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” on Google Video.

James Corbett, I’m not sure where this fits into the Open Eire Directory.

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