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

[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.