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Slacker Manager: Bookish tags
Slacker Manager points to this article over on 800-CEO-READ Blog called Tagging: Making it easier to find biz book information where there is a proposal for everyone talking about business books to use businessbooks as a tag. I say tag early and tag often. Just keep your tags relavent. Slacker Manager makes the point that agreeing on a tag goes against the will of the web and I'd have to agree to a point.
What may be worth talking about is how to tag when you have something that can be plural or something that could potentially be a verb or action.
"Firefox" for example is a no-brainer. It is easily tagged. "Podcasting" is potentially dangerous. In my mind a "Podcast" is a show and the tag should relate to it as such. Singular. No "ing". Now if there is software that I am talking about to create podcast my thought is to tag it "Podcasting".
Maybe we are all better served if it is tagged both ways? Same goes for "businessbooks". Do we need that "s" at the end? Will a search for "businessbook" find a article tagged with the "s" at the end? It should.
I agree whole heartedly with the premise of "squishing" the words together. I think about this alot, living where I do. Seems much more efficient to tag something "sandiego". I know that del.icio.us would see "san diego" as 2 tags.
I should also mention what the other articles didn't and that is pinging. If you blog you should ping. Blogger has a check box to let you automatically ping Weblogs.com when you post but another method I like is http://pingomatic.com/. Pingomatic.com lets you ping many places at the same time. Doing so will get your tagged items "out there" and indexed. Don't wait for the indexing engines to come crawling. Tell them there is something new.
[Categories: folksonomy, taxonomy, tagging, tags ] This entry was posted on Thursday, March 03, 2005 at 4:38 PM.
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