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  1. Different strokes for different sites by shawnmchorse · · Score: 1 · on The Need For A Tagging Standard

    I'm a big fan of tags. I just recently got finished with a redesign of a personal web site at RockyMusic.org, and it uses tags heavily now. All of the content including photos, MP3s, videos, song lyrics, external links, documents, albums, individual tracks, and so on uses the same set of tags (which I applied). I can then use those tags to tie everything on the site together. Examples: Richard O'Brien, Little Nell, Rocky Horror Show. Since I did all the tagging, it's consistent across all the content as well.

    That's a case I think where a tagging "standard" would not be at all useful, since making it non-standard is the primary reason it works well I think. Slashdot and other sites that use user-generated tags will always see a lot of humorous, insulting, and otherwise unuseful tags. I know I've seen photos of girls tagged "butter face", and Slashdot obviously has its own cults of "itsatrap", "slownewsday", and so on. Some that are specific to Slashdot ("slashvertisement") are quite useful though.

  2. Different strokes for different sites by shawnmchorse · · Score: 1 · on The Need For A Tagging Standard

    I'm a big fan of tags. I just recently got finished with a redesign of a personal web site at RockyMusic.org, and it uses tags heavily now. All of the content including photos, MP3s, videos, song lyrics, external links, documents, albums, individual tracks, and so on uses the same set of tags (which I applied). I can then use those tags to tie everything on the site together. Examples: Richard O'Brien, Little Nell, Rocky Horror Show. Since I did all the tagging, it's consistent across all the content as well.

    That's a case I think where a tagging "standard" would not be at all useful, since making it non-standard is the primary reason it works well I think. Slashdot and other sites that use user-generated tags will always see a lot of humorous, insulting, and otherwise unuseful tags. I know I've seen photos of girls tagged "butter face", and Slashdot obviously has its own cults of "itsatrap", "slownewsday", and so on. Some that are specific to Slashdot ("slashvertisement") are quite useful though.

  3. Different strokes for different sites by shawnmchorse · · Score: 1 · on The Need For A Tagging Standard

    I'm a big fan of tags. I just recently got finished with a redesign of a personal web site at RockyMusic.org, and it uses tags heavily now. All of the content including photos, MP3s, videos, song lyrics, external links, documents, albums, individual tracks, and so on uses the same set of tags (which I applied). I can then use those tags to tie everything on the site together. Examples: Richard O'Brien, Little Nell, Rocky Horror Show. Since I did all the tagging, it's consistent across all the content as well.

    That's a case I think where a tagging "standard" would not be at all useful, since making it non-standard is the primary reason it works well I think. Slashdot and other sites that use user-generated tags will always see a lot of humorous, insulting, and otherwise unuseful tags. I know I've seen photos of girls tagged "butter face", and Slashdot obviously has its own cults of "itsatrap", "slownewsday", and so on. Some that are specific to Slashdot ("slashvertisement") are quite useful though.

  4. Different strokes for different sites by shawnmchorse · · Score: 1 · on The Need For A Tagging Standard

    I'm a big fan of tags. I just recently got finished with a redesign of a personal web site at RockyMusic.org, and it uses tags heavily now. All of the content including photos, MP3s, videos, song lyrics, external links, documents, albums, individual tracks, and so on uses the same set of tags (which I applied). I can then use those tags to tie everything on the site together. Examples: Richard O'Brien, Little Nell, Rocky Horror Show. Since I did all the tagging, it's consistent across all the content as well.

    That's a case I think where a tagging "standard" would not be at all useful, since making it non-standard is the primary reason it works well I think. Slashdot and other sites that use user-generated tags will always see a lot of humorous, insulting, and otherwise unuseful tags. I know I've seen photos of girls tagged "butter face", and Slashdot obviously has its own cults of "itsatrap", "slownewsday", and so on. Some that are specific to Slashdot ("slashvertisement") are quite useful though.

  5. The Rocky Prior Art Horror Show by rewinn · · Score: 3, Funny · on Microsoft's Online Spectator Patent

    "... In another dimension
    With voyeuristic intention
    Well secluded, I see all ..."

    It's astounding .... MS got prior art'd by the Time Warp ... Again!

  6. See Androids Fighting .... Brad and Janet by billstewart · · Score: 1 · on Fighting Android Sparring Partner
    Other than remembering the original Rock'em Sock'em Robots, my first reactions to the posting were to remember the Rocky Horror Theme Music.

    Besides, the term "Robots" first appeared in Capek's play R.U.R., where they definitely hadn't thought of Asimov's laws yet.

  7. Older SF fans might disagree with you by billstewart · · Score: 1 · on Fighting Android Sparring Partner

    Android is mostly an older term for human-shaped robots - when I hear it, I expect something with the B-movie visual-effects qualities of Flash Gordon or early Dr. Who, or maybe a bit more art-deco styling but still crude motions. It's stuff that was old when the Rocky Horror Show Theme Music was written.