[LINK] Tagging, 43things, folksonomies..

[Roger Clarke]

jeff.evans at iird.vic.gov.au:
>I'm enthusiastic about the relatively new phenomenon of tagging used in
>sites like < http://del.icio.us/ > and < http://www.flickr.com/ >

I'm happy to put a 'tag' on 'tagging':  deja vu.

I wonder whether they'll later discover that there are benefits in 
having controlled vocabularies, and mappings between dialects;  and 
then whether there will be holy wars between the proponents of 
embedded tags and of separately-stored tags;  and then competition 
between brute-force, free-text search-engines, tag-based searches, 
and schemes that use both and score the outcomes in order to present 
the hits in most-interesting-first order.

What they said was true:  as you get older, you get to see everything 
happen again, only faster this time.

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