After 3 posts on my blog, I think I've finally got it boiled down to the right core of things. Dave Rogers thinks that Technorati is bad because they use numbers as a substitute for authority. I happen to have authority issues, so I instictively agree... but that only gets me going in the right direction (eventually...)
Links should be able to tag the object they link to... thus the neologism the LinkTag (like a Tag for inside a Link)...