I was happy to see that Technorati now automatically maps from the category system in many common blog systems to 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."

One might like to have tags that differ from the blog category system (e.g., finer grained), but I think this might give me 80f what I want with virtually no effort.

I lose. Technorati is still not finding these essays and adding the tags to the Atom feed didn't help.

*shrug*

I had the same problem, until I matched the exact case between my Technorati tags and my del.icio.us bookmark tags... Now Technorati likes my tags and picks up new articles from my feed. HTH, --Scotty

According to http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/02/technorati-tags-introduction.html the case shouldn't make a difference. There are some other tips in that page that might be useful too, as it took the writer a week to get the tags recognized.

If you look at your Technorati profile, it has a parse report of your blog: "RDF Parser: Could not open File: http://norman.walsh.name/foaf. Stopped parsing."

Hope that solves the problem :-) Michael

Thanks, Michael, I've fixed that bug, but I don't think it was related. At least, fixing it doesn't seem to have helped.