An article on tagging

[conuly]

Here.

Another drawback lacks an easy solution, though. Once tagging takes off, marketers are bound to add irrelevant tags to hijack you to the latest Viagra ad.

Warns Danny Sullivan, editor of the online newsletter Search Engine Watch: "The noise and deliberate manipulation will probably just bring the system into a crashing halt."

Couldn't there be some sort of rating system? Visitors to a tagged site could rate it on a scale of how appropriate it was, or how useful, or whatever. Not that I know anything about this, of course.

Comments

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

There is a rating system like that running right now, though I can't tell how many people use it -- you can log into it through the Firefox extension "StumbleUpon". Interesting to play with if you want to find new sites/blogs to check out.

(Too bleah to find the linky for you, but it's on the main extensions pages, so shouldn't be a problem.)

[nerdinium.livejournal.com]

I used to label and categorize each picture I took myself, and images that I liked off of the web, but after accumulating several thousand, I just got tired of it. Now I just put all the images in general category folders, label the folder, and use a thumbnail viewing program to find what I want.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

There is a rating system like that running right now, though I can't tell how many people use it -- you can log into it through the Firefox extension "StumbleUpon". Interesting to play with if you want to find new sites/blogs to check out.

(Too bleah to find the linky for you, but it's on the main extensions pages, so shouldn't be a problem.)

[nerdinium.livejournal.com]

I used to label and categorize each picture I took myself, and images that I liked off of the web, but after accumulating several thousand, I just got tired of it. Now I just put all the images in general category folders, label the folder, and use a thumbnail viewing program to find what I want.