Thursday, March 26, 2009

Thing 13 Tagging and Social Bookkmarking

Finally, something I'm familiar with and use on a daily basis. However, we can all learn something new. In reference to the article "Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging," I learned a couple of new things:

  • Co-ordinate your efforts - I can see how this will be particularly useful. but at what point are we moving away from a "folksonomy" toward a "cataloging thesaurus?"
  • Tags are written in pencil - This is good to know, I've been editing on a one-by-one basis. I hope I remember and do it.
My goal is to review all my saved in folders bookmarks and slowly add them to my delicious bookmarks. Hopefully, this won't take the rest of my life!

I certainly pay attention to the number of saves for a particular site, but as of yet, have not followed any particular "tagger." I have noticed that sometimes a descriptor is evident. I don't know how these are added.

1 comment:

  1. "...but at what point are we moving away from a "folksonomy" toward a "cataloging thesaurus?" GOOD POINT! Something to think about.

    In answer to your last paragraph, when you add a tag, there is a "Notes" box in which you can place a description of the site.

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