Probably your’re right. i really new to w3c web standar and i know that one of SEO stuff is stuffing a link with title. But honestly, SEO is not my main concern. i just want to control my blog theme better.
But after hearing your point of view about noise, i think you’re also right. Eventhough this is the first time i heard it. Maybe you can accept my apology cause of my lack of experience. (and my english ?? )
About rel microformat. yes, i wanto to give more information such as rel=”tag” if the navigation is in a tag archieve.