What's with the tag sale?
Rashmi Sinha provides some thoughts as to what's with the whole tagging epidemic - and I use 'epidemic' in the nicest possible way. She provides an excellent analysis of how we "tag" things in our everyday lives, and how that applies to using that skill on the Web. What's great is that I found this entry while using del.icio.us, which is full of tagged links to everything and anything you might be interested in, and as I'm posting this I've put it in the newly formed "tagging" category here on my blog, but I'm not limited to doing just that. I could put it into "theory" or "Web 2.0" or any number of categories on my site, or any other site like del.icio.us that I chose to post it on.
Categorizing content, news, information, whatever, through the form of links is so easy. It's not like when you are recycling your cans and bottles at home, and you have one container that says "glass" and another that says "green glass" - leaving you to wonder what to do with the green bottle of beer in your hand - as you only have one choice. With tagging, the "error" is probably only limited to putting something in one bucket. You give people who might think differently than you do the same opportunity to find a link that you found interesting, even if they don't think "tagging" is the tag to look under.
[via del.icio.us / axa1981]
