An interesting concept, tagging. Around here more commonly associated with Vivid markers, spray cans or little square sticky things with electronics in them.
Once I realised "tagging" was just another name for "keyword" - as in keyword searching - the whole concept began to have personal uses to recommend it.
My enormous file of photocopied recipes for example. Instead of searching for ever for just where did I put Jo Seagar's Beer bread recipe I could simply tag it. "Bread" would do but Bread and Beer would bring it up at once. Of course I would either have to scan them in to a database or maybe, and this appeals more, allocate each a code number (call number).
The same thing applies to my CD collection although that needs more thought.
To my mind the real trick to tagging would be to remember the tags used.
And I never found the Beer Bread recipe either!
Thought for this lesson (although not quite true)
"I like learning stuff like that. It's precise, pleasing and quite without use" (Joe Bennett)
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