Since you ask: I call it automatic because it automatically creates the relevant bits for every new post that your write, and automatically adds the relevant meta and technorati tags.

It goes as far as it can because it’s impossible for a machine to accurately understand the meaning of your post – anyone that tells you otherwise is either wrong, or about to become the richest person in the world (because they must have just perfected AI).

Autometa extacts what appear to be the most important terms from each new post that you write, but, because what you write does not necessarily contain all the relevant words and tags to which the post pertains, it’s necessary for a human to have the last word. You can, if you wish, leave it all down to the machine, and it can be entirely automatic, but then your tags won’t be optimal, no matter if you use Autometa, or any other machine based tagging system that has yet to be invented.

The beauty of Technorati is that it’s human-tagged, so automatic machine tagging of everything would only serve to reduce both the specificity and exhaustivity of the tagging system. Autometa exists to simplify and automate the tagging process, and not to subvert it.

That’s why it’s not totally automatic. Thanks for looking all the same