Comments on: Not All Tags are Created Equal http://sstrudeau.com/2006/01/21/not-all-tags-are-created-equal/ Scott Trudeau's web log Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:30:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Brian http://sstrudeau.com/2006/01/21/not-all-tags-are-created-equal/#comment-345 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:06:35 +0000 http://sstrudeau.com/2006/01/21/not-all-tags-are-created-equal/#comment-345 So glad I could read a post and its comments and not see anybody talking about ONTOLOGY. So glad I could read a post and its comments and not see anybody talking about ONTOLOGY.

]]> by: Scott http://sstrudeau.com/2006/01/21/not-all-tags-are-created-equal/#comment-344 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:04:02 +0000 http://sstrudeau.com/2006/01/21/not-all-tags-are-created-equal/#comment-344 Josh, I think college is making you smarter. Josh, I think college is making you smarter.

]]> by: js http://sstrudeau.com/2006/01/21/not-all-tags-are-created-equal/#comment-343 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:14:12 +0000 http://sstrudeau.com/2006/01/21/not-all-tags-are-created-equal/#comment-343 The people who advise unifying tags would do well to read some Wittgenstein, especially his famous example of how the word "game" is used. The variety in tagging leads to what I conceptualize as swarms of meaning around any given instance of content, and through those intentionly disunified tagging system more valuable information about the content can be given than through any unified system. Get used to the death of narrative, oh those of the united modernist tag project, as this "inefficiency" leads to much richer resources than simply catagorizing everything with a single taxonomy. The people who advise unifying tags would do well to read some Wittgenstein, especially his famous example of how the word “game” is used. The variety in tagging leads to what I conceptualize as swarms of meaning around any given instance of content, and through those intentionly disunified tagging system more valuable information about the content can be given than through any unified system.
Get used to the death of narrative, oh those of the united modernist tag project, as this “inefficiency” leads to much richer resources than simply catagorizing everything with a single taxonomy.

]]> by: Chris Heuer http://sstrudeau.com/2006/01/21/not-all-tags-are-created-equal/#comment-328 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:40:15 +0000 http://sstrudeau.com/2006/01/21/not-all-tags-are-created-equal/#comment-328 I have spoken with Stuart about my idea for <a href="http://www.tagspaces.org/" rel="nofollow">TagSpaces</a> and he liked it in principle. We need to continue this dialog further to be sure. My idea is to simply embrace the chaos and lead by example in creating a meta-tagging system across all contexts. Much like namespaces, it is possible there is a dictionary created oneday, but all of this is still on the table for discussion. A couple of other good articles on this are here http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1544 http://sriram.wordpress.com/2005/11/04/tagspeak-models-tagback-shelley-tagback-stowe-itags-mary-tagspaces-chris/ I have spoken with Stuart about my idea for TagSpaces and he liked it in principle. We need to continue this dialog further to be sure. My idea is to simply embrace the chaos and lead by example in creating a meta-tagging system across all contexts. Much like namespaces, it is possible there is a dictionary created oneday, but all of this is still on the table for discussion.

A couple of other good articles on this are here

http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1544

http://sriram.wordpress.com/2005/11/04/tagspeak-models-tagback-shelley-tagback-stowe-itags-mary-tagspaces-chris/

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