Tagging, tagging, tagging...

What can I say except that I love it. Sure, precision isn't always the best. When I try searching for "tiger" in Flickr for instance, I get images of: tigers, tiger butterflies, kids dressed up as tigers, Tiger Crow flowers, Tiger Cub Scouts, cats named tiger... You get the idea. But if you enter a specific search term, you can get pretty good results (Searching for "fishing cat" for instance yields much better results).

Why is tagging better than using folders for organization? Well it expedites searching and there is the whole concept of poly-hierarchy. Note that entries in this blog are tagged and the list of tags is listed on the right-hand side. Recently, when I gave a presentation on Web 2.0, I saved links to all of the sites I used as examples in my Keynote (Mac version of Powerpoint) to Del.icio.us. I tagged these sites by the name of the slides they appeared. Since we were in a computer lab, by providing everyone with a the url to my Del.icio.us site, they could quickly explore these sites for themselves. Below is a screenshot of my Del.icio.us site.


Photo Credits:
1. Tiger, 2. Untitled, 3. Dormindo igual um gatinho ...., 4. TigerLiliesBW.jpg, 5. Phoenix, 6. Tiger, 7. Sam's Halloween Costume, 8. Little Tiger & Mom, 9. eye of the tiger ..., 10. FOA: Drama 2, 11. After, 12. lonely tiger, 13. tiger, 14. Not available, 15. Not available, 16. Not available