WordPress 2.3 is slated for release this coming Monday, Sept. 24. It has several new features but one that deserves particular note are tags - words that help add some meaning to the subjects of your posts.

For quite a while I’ve been using a plug in that creates Technorati tags and have been considering ditching them as I don’t get much traffic from Technorati and I’m on a quest to declutter this blog. Now with WordPress 2.3 supporting tags internally I’m thinking I’ll just move over to that system.

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Hmm, not sure about this Technorati front page redesign, since they did one only a few months ago. At that time it seemed they were going for a more mainstream approach, hiding their blog content sources and promoting videos and their WTF service.

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Yesterday, news came out that Dave Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati has left the company, and eight employees have been laid off.

Soon after Technorati’s WTF was announced and Technorati’s redesign, I noticed a few things happening that raised some flags - in July, executives Adam Hertz (I actually had some interaction with via this blog - he sent me a WTF T-shirt), Tantek Celik, and Liz Dunn left the company.

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