bedeviled mojo slop

Wow, not one, but two mentions on BoingBoing today.

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Cold Beverage - G Love and Special Sauce

I was curious when Technorati introduced their Technorati Tags.

If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom (like Movable Type, WordPress, TypePad, Blogware, Radio), just use the included category system and make sure you're publishing RSS/Atom and we'll automatically include your posts! Your categories will be read as tags.

Here I'm thinking, well, if they're grabbing my RSS 2.0 feed, they should pickup the appropriate information from the <category/> tags. After all, they talk about it in terms of categories and the <category/> tag is an element in the RSS 2.0 specification. There's also a <category/> construct in the latest Atom syndication format. Apparently, Tim Bray is also investigating the Technorati Tags and I guess you have to use the <dc:subject/> namespaced element. I didn't find that on Technorati's page describing more on tags. Why <dc:subject/> as opposed to the <category/> tag that's already a part of the RSS specification?