Archive for November 11th, 2005

What are tags and tagging?

4 comments November 11th, 2005

Some people are a little confused by this latest trend, wondering what all the fuss is about and why it's becoming the next best thing since sliced bread… or hyperlinks. So I'll do my best to explain it.

With Web 1.0 if you find a website that you like, you added it to your bookmarks. You may have filed it under any type of bookmark folder categorisation, including news, personal, entertainment, etc etc. From that point on, it required you to remember what the site was about, and to manually go back to it whenever you thought of it.


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Blink List and tag clouds

1 comment November 11th, 2005

Over at Blink List, I've been working on tagging my site with all kinds of various tags related to all the posts on my blog. As a result of what I've been doing, I now have a tag cloud over there, which looks like this:

What I've found very exciting is the 'weighting' of tags. What this means is that the more stuff you have tagged with a particular word, the larger is the text of that tag. And the 'heavier' it is, the larger it gets, and it becomes more colourful too.


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