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The Need For A Tagging Standard
John Carmichael writes "Tags are everywhere now. Not just blogs, but famous news sites, corporate press bulletins, forums, and even Slashdot. That's why it's such a shame that they're rendered almost entirely useless by the lack of a tagging standard with which tags from various sites and tag aggregators like Technorati and Del.icio.us can compare and relate tags to one another.
Depending on where you go and who you ask, tags are implemented differently, and even defined in their own unique way. Even more importantly, tags were meant to be universal and compatible: a medium of sharing and conveying info across the blogosphere — the very embodiment of a semantic web. Unfortunately, they're not. Far from it, tags create more discord and confusion than they do minimize it.
I have to say, it would be nice to just learn one way of tagging content and using it everywhere.""
Is not to tag everything like 13 year old cheerleaders.
Which is why I tagged this article with "njkewjdkewd."
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I must say that the Slashdot way of tagging irks me. I think tags should have hyphens between words, much like they do in their "from the the-slow-down dept". Makes it more readable.s as who knows what analbum is?
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Obviously we have to find the lowest common denominator between all the different tagging systems.
I propose that we standardize the following tags:
thissux
omgthisrox
That should cover 100% of the content in a manner that everyone can relate to.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
You're never going to get everyone to agree on a set of appropriate tags.
Then how come everyone on here has agreed on a handful of standard tags:
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transporter_ii
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, religion destroys spirituality
and here I thought the standard for tagging was for the first person to agree or disagree with the headline, then the next has to immediately disagree with the first person. 5 minutes down the line if no one has added another tag, the third must disgree with BOTH the first and the second poster. Finally, a serious slashdotter will show up to add a relevant tag, followed by the oh so frequent itsatrap and slownewsday tags.
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"buzzword" is a term used by cynical people trying to sound important.
If it's in you sig, it's in your post.
Someone should patent tagging, license it out for a small cost and enforce a standard...
"Cynical" is a term used by anal-retentive people trying to sound wise.
I think by "blogosphere", you really mean "internet".
Um, no. I don't care what the FAQ says; "!itsatrap" is hard to distinguish from "itsatrap." Maybe it works in monospaced code, but not so well in proportional font.
People who insist on sticking to the fucking rules are the number one problem facing today's society, methinks.
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go looking for 'category 12233242' to find 'academic humor'.
Isn't this recursive?
I think for me the moment I realized that the idea of tags needed a little bit of work was the day I saw them on Amazon.com. I was viewing a product there, and it had been tagged "Presents for Jim".
You closed them in the wrong order, so I guess the rest of the conversation is no longer valid. :)
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