Comments on: Tagging And Metadata and Why Bother

By: yuregininsesi

yuregininsesi — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:10:00 +0000

I think tag CLOUDS kind of bug me. I don’t think most people navigate via them. They’re neat as quick data sets, but not especially neat to navigate by. Our minds don’t work that way, and besides, those clouds almost always only size based on frequency. There aren’t other options like relevance.

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If I tag something as “elearning” how is the person who considers it “distance learning” ever going to find my stuff?

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By: teknoloji haberleri

teknoloji haberleri — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:20:44 +0000

f I tag something as “elearning” how is the person who considers it “distance learning” ever going to find my stuff?

By: seks

seks — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:05:46 +0000

Isn't this exactly the issue we have with categories? If I tag something as “elearning” how is the person who considers it “distance learning” ever going to find my stuff? Won't he continue to search on the tags he is comfortable with?

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By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:43:05 +0000

Chris,

This is an issue I’ve been struggling with for a while and your post has started to make some sense out of it for me.

However, just when I thought the clouds were parting, one of your very simple comments confuses things for me.

When you make the example of two different people tagging content two different ways, it seemed like you were suggesting that it was the tags that would help each of them find the other’s content.

What I’m still struggling to understand is HOW? Isn’t this exactly the issue we have with categories? If I tag something as “elearning” how is the person who considers it “distance learning” ever going to find my stuff? Won’t he continue to search on the tags he is comfortable with?

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:43:00 +0000

Chris,

This is an issue I’ve been struggling with for a while and your post has started to make some sense out of it for me.

However, just when I thought the clouds were parting, one of your very simple comments confuses things for me.

When you make the example of two different people tagging content two different ways, it seemed like you were suggesting that it was the tags that would help each of them find the other’s content.

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:43:00 +0000

Chris,

This is an issue I’ve been struggling with for a while and your post has started to make some sense out of it for me.

However, just when I thought the clouds were parting, one of your very simple comments confuses things for me.

When you make the example of two different people tagging content two different ways, it seemed like you were suggesting that it was the tags that would help each of them find the other’s content.

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

By: Adam Kayce

Adam Kayce — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:46:28 +0000

I’m creating a new site, and I’m seriously wondering if it’s worth it at all to tag my posts.

On my last site, I did… had a big ol’ tag cloud and everything… but testing showed me that it almost never got clicked.

Like Douglas Karr and Scramblejam said, I like seeing what I’ve done, but is it of use to users? Doubting it, seriously.