Whatever happened to tagging?
Paolo Valdemarin and Matt Mower moan over the state of tagging.
Maybe now that Technorai has been freed from the tyranny of it’s former masters - a new owner will come in and solve this issue. Ego got in the way at Technorati. Its too bad how they handled tagging.
But tagging is much BIGGER than Tantek or Dave Sifry.
Tagging is about as big as it gets. Right up there with people.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Or, it could be, that when I criticized tagging a couple of years ago at Northern Voice, I was right. http://www.downes.ca/post/14
August 28th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Whaaa?
Marc, Tagging has ALWAYS been totally open. all it takes is rel=”tag”. That’s it. Technorati created a namespace that people could use if they wanted to, but a thousand flowers have bloomed. Look at wordpress.com - they created their own namespace at wordpress.com/tags , Look at Techcrunch, they did it too. Heck, look at The New York Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/patent-litigation/
So, um, you can leave off on the personal attacks. Thanks, it’s noted, but irrelevant.
Over 250 million tagged posts have been created, and that was at last check, about 6 months ago. I’d say it’s been pretty darned successful.
Dave
August 28th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Hi Marc. I realise it’s your word to choose but I’d like to think I was less moaning about the state of tagging and more puzzled, yet happy because there is still so much undiscovered country to explore.
David: I was not arguing that tagging hasn’t become vastly more prevalent than it was in 2003/4. It has and Technorati has clearly been a big part of that. No my argument is that tagging doesn’t seem to have become vastly more useful than it was in 2003/4.
But if the tools have not kept up with the data that’s nobody’s fault, just a great big opportunity
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