State of the Blogosphere: Tags - 2 comments
One of Technorati's recent State of the Blogosphere articles is on the use of tags in blog posts:
Unlike rigid taxonomy schemes that many people dislike using, the ease of tagging for personal organization with social incentives leads to a rich and discoverable system, often called a folksonomy. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery. And with the right tag search and navigation, folksonomy may outperform more structured approaches to classification...Check out our wonderful tags page to see what people are talking about in the Labour blogosphere.
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I like the idea of tags, or categories as they seem to be called by some people.
I notice that you don't use them yourself though.
Is this because, like me, you are using Blogger?
I was slightly amused to see your tag page though. How many other parts of the Internet will have more posts tagged for "nails in bodies" than for "sex" or "sport"?
Exactly, Blogger don't support categories. Nor TrackBack. If I was starting out now, I'd definitely go for something like TypePad, but then there's the hassle involved...
I think they're both very useful features.
Tagging things as "nails in bodies" is defeating the aim slightly, as it's far too specific for anyone to search on, but there you go.
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