quick thought... January 16th, 2007 - 2:55PM
I’m pretty sure they aren’t many people out there that tag their posts with as rich of a method that I employ — proper nouns, descriptors and phrases — but I have a question for even the casual taggers out there. Do you cull your library of tags, every now and then, for dead wood? Every now and then I drop tags that I think will never be used again (like the name of the Duke lacrosse players) in order to keep my tag (index) universe useful. Just wondering…
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Hello, thanks for the comment at my website … but, what did you meant? ^^
heh. i think i was trying to say, “i can’t speak (spanish or portuguese), but thanks for the link.” what came out was, “no speak… thanks.”
I’m sick of using tags for text-based content. I only use tags as categories, as a linited set of highly-controlled vocabulary to provide ways to find large amounts of thematically-similar content — not as all-purpose tagging in the current “free-tagging” sense. I mean, search engines are pretty good these days, it’s not like searchability stands in the way of your content being found.
I often think tagging represents humans dumbing themselves down in order to accommodate the dumbness of computers instead of computers becoming smarter to accommodate us.
hm. i look at tagging with a bit more romance than that. buy hey, to each his own.