There’s a lot of discussion at Syndicate about tagging, with the first session with Jeff Jarvis evolving into an extended debate over Technorati’s tag-reading algorithms. Technorati’s David Sifry was in the room to defend his company but people were using the wireless network to point out Technorati’s inadequacies in real time. It was lively but a little out of hand.

There were some interesting points on the lack of tagging standards or metadata for blogs. One is that there are too many standards, some open, some proprietary. Standards are needed. Second problem is that too few bloggers even use tags because they don’t understand them or don’t see value in them. One audience member put it well: “It’s like a giant Tower of Babel populated by mutes. We’ve got multiple languages but nobody’s using them. “