Tagging
Five Years of Delicious Tagging
Delicious really brought social bookmarking and tagging to the mainstream, so I honestly wish its fifth birthday came under better circumstances. I still remember when it went by the adorably geeky name del.icio.us. I still remember smiling when founder Joshua Schachter quit his day job to pursue his crazy little project full time. I still remember cheering when Schachter’s entrepreneurial gamble paid off, when Yahoo bought Delicious.
In the three years since Yahoo acquired it, Delicious has seen its founder sidelined, its brand diluted, its mindshare diminished, and its design dumbed down.
Hell, Yahoo Buzz competes with Delicious. It’s peanut butter all over again. Click here to continue reading “Five Years of Delicious Tagging”…
Tag Your Events!
I’m now reading David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous, and I just came across a passage that made me LOL.
Indeed, it’s becoming common at technical conferences for the organizers to recommend the attendees tag their conference-related blog posts, photos, and online articles with a tag specific to that conference — “etech2006” or “poptech07” — so they can all easily be found by using tag search sites such as Technorati.com.
This is exactly what I’ve been telling Philippine event organizers to do in this fiesta-happy nation of bloggers. Every time I do, they look at me like I’m insane. One even accused me of sabotaging their site’s security, apparently confusing spam-vulnerable tagboards with tags. Another accused me of facilitating massive copyright infringement through tag streams, as if they were selling content instead of events.
Well, now it’s in a book available on dead trees in Philippine brick-and-mortar bookstores. Filipino event runners, most of whom have been taught since youth to know nothing but what’s written verbatim in dead-tree textbooks, should be able to appreciate that. I am officially not insane here.
