--- modules/technorati/technorati.module	2007-04-29 06:03:07.000000000 +0000
+++ modules/technorati/technoratiNew.module	2007-04-29 06:04:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -242,7 +242,17 @@ function _technorati_taxonomy($node) {
 }
 
 function _technorati_link($tag) {
-  return '<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/' . check_plain($tag) . '" rel="tag">' . check_plain($tag) . '</a>';
+  // Patch by Ron D. Fredericks (RDF), April 22, 2007	
+  // http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/
+  // a) remove whitespace between tags;
+  // b) format the n words making up multi-word tags
+  //     with (n-1) "+" symbols.
+  $tag = check_plain($tag);
+  $tag = str_replace("+", " ", $tag);
+  $tag = _technorati_wsstrip($tag);
+  return '<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/' . 
+          str_replace(" ", "+", $tag) . 
+           '" rel="tag">' . $tag . '</a>';
 }
 
 function technorati_ping($name = '', $url = '') {
@@ -254,3 +264,14 @@ function technorati_ping($name = '', $ur
     watchdog('directory ping', t('Failed to notify technorati.com site.'), WATCHDOG_WARNING);
   }
 }
+
+function _technorati_wsstrip($str) {
+// Whitespace strip algorithm:
+//   a) Delete all whitespace from left and/or right of tags,
+//   b) Reduce multiple whitespace in between elements of tags 
+//      to a single whitespace.
+// Reference: 
+//   daggillies's comment on http://www.php.net/trim 
+  $str=ereg_replace (' +', ' ', trim($str));
+  return ereg_replace("[\r\t\n]","",$str);	
+}