Tag: how to use internet blogs, new technologies,...

Blog, habits of play, 30 things, VBPL, 46 days, mp3 player, web program. These are all of the tags that Web 2.0 could be filed under. Alright so I stretched abit. My point I guess is that the only way that tagging could be useful for research and or referencing purposes for anyone would be if there were some method of standardization brought to it from a common source. This of course defeats the entire purpose of what tagging is about (user defined material). What motivates someone to categorize a topic as one thing may not be the same as what motivates another person. Two different users could be looking at completely similar or completely different aspects of the topic tagged. This means that any third party looking for the subject that these two users tagged completely differently is either going to get extremely confused, or they are going to miss out on valuable information about the topic; this applies to a library, research facility or any other place of buisness. In the article about how tagging could be implimented in different places of business including libraries, the author suggessted that buisness owners could take the most popular "tags" that people file topics under and use those key words. I believe they would most likely run into the problem that I described above. On another tangent though I think tags are a useful way to meet someone who might have similar interests as you. It would have to be implimented in a purely social sense. Meanwhile I have to decide what to tag this blog under...