| TAGS! TAGS! TAGS!!!!!!!!Tags can be confusing. I don’t know about anyone else but tags and categories seem like the same thing to me. There were a lot of questions in class on Wednesday about them. After reading Folksonamies-Cooperative Classification and communication Through Shared Meta data, by Adam Mathes, I got more of an understanding of them. The article starts off confusing my confusion. After reading it a second time it started to make more sense.
On pag 6 he defines categorization- “Categorization is generally less rigorous and boundaries are less clear.” On page 3, he gives specific instructions on using tags in Del.icio.us. “Del.icio.us is not unique or pioneering in its role as bookmarks manager. What seems to be relatively new and different is the emphasis on user added keywords as a fundamental organizational construct. These keywords, which are referred to as “tags” on the site, allow users to describe and organize content with any vocabulary they choose. He goes on the compare Flickr and Del.icio.us to each other based on what users are able to do on each site. Pretty soon campuses around the world will be offering courses titled TAG 101. The following is a set of terms that will be of great importance. Tag-aholic- needs no explanation. Tag-itis- inflamation of your metadata. For me, it’s going to take some practice, so here goes. I’m going to (attempt) to add some tags.- Petisa |
TAGGING PROBLEMS October 7, 2007
TAG CLOUDS October 7, 2007
The tag cloud is a great tool for users to get a quick visual of what a particular blog is about. It could really save the user time by allowing one to decide if it’s something we want to continue reading. The clouds give the words a highlighted pictureof what to expect. I went to the web site http://www.tagcrowd.com to create a tag cloud — the only thing is I can’t figure out how to incorporate it into the wordpress blogs page.If anyone else was able to do so, maybe you can post the directions for me.-Petisa
