Description:
A "tag" is label that can be applied to a photo, bookmark or anything else so that it a) can be described and b) may be put aside for later. This "thing" asks you to try out a tag on a service of your choice.
Here are some popular services that offer tags:
- Blogger, Wordpress (although don't you think this is cheating a little)?
- LibraryThing, and Bibliophil
- del.icio.us
- Flickr, YouTube and related sites.
- You may need an account with the service you are using to create tags.
- The collection of tags used on a service is called a "Folksonomy." Remember that: it will help you complete Thing Number 20, and has one other use you will discover later.
- Think of tags as like storing something in a folder, except the folder is "applied" to the object instead of the object being put in the folder. The main advantage is that tags work as if you had the same file in a number of different folders at the same time.
- Tagging is also helpful because it can be unique. For instance, maybe you need a certain photo for a course or program -- you can tag the photo with the program/course name!
2 comments:
There's an interesting example of tagging in action in a library setting that I'd like to share with the others - items in the Danbury Library catalogue (http://cat.danburylibrary.org/) have been tagged by the users and these tags can be used to find similar items in the collection. Pretty cool! Here's a link to LibraryThing's "Thingology" post about it: http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/01/tagging-people-powered-metadata-for.php
Can I tag a video on youtube that I have not uploaded?
Thanks
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