http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2006/11/08/cleaning-up-the-tags/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2006/11/08/cleaning-up-the-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Dominic Sayers Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:43:49 +0000 http://dominicsayers.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/cleaning-up-the-tags/#comment-166 Hi NatC, and thanks for the comment. Your blog is very interesting - I have added it to my aggregator. It seems like tagging one of the points at which your interest in linguistics and non-deterministic systems meets. Hi NatC, and thanks for the comment. Your blog is very interesting – I have added it to my aggregator. It seems like tagging one of the points at which your interest in linguistics and non-deterministic systems meets.

]]> http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2006/11/08/cleaning-up-the-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-165 NatC Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:04:47 +0000 http://dominicsayers.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/cleaning-up-the-tags/#comment-165 As to what is a good tagging habit... I'm not sure that we would want everyone to tag in the same way, in the same manner that I would not want everyone to speak international english. We have lots of words and synonyms because each of them have specific cultural aspects attached to them, that go far beyond what a dictionnary entry can tell us. And that can be useful during a tag search as well. Also, as a del.icio.us user, one of my prefered ways to look for entries of interest has always been to look for a tag, select interesting entries tagged that way, and look at how other people had tagged these entries. This way I'm expanding my horizon and start looking at tags I did not think of at first, but may bring interesting additional meaning or cultural specificities (would it simply be jargon from experts in the subject). As to what is a good tagging habit… I’m not sure that we would want everyone to tag in the same way, in the same manner that I would not want everyone to speak international english. We have lots of words and synonyms because each of them have specific cultural aspects attached to them, that go far beyond what a dictionnary entry can tell us. And that can be useful during a tag search as well.
Also, as a del.icio.us user, one of my prefered ways to look for entries of interest has always been to look for a tag, select interesting entries tagged that way, and look at how other people had tagged these entries. This way I’m expanding my horizon and start looking at tags I did not think of at first, but may bring interesting additional meaning or cultural specificities (would it simply be jargon from experts in the subject).

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