I just added my comments about Tagging to the LibraryThing discussion board, and now they are sending me a book. It wasn't because what I said was great.. I was picked at random.. but it's still cool. I wanted a tagging picture to go with my blog and found somewhere that I could make a tag cloud of my blog.
See top of my blog.
Here is a copy of my post:
Tags are amazing! For me the sights that make the best use of Tags are these...
Flickr - the first tagging site I ever used. An archive of all my photos. If I want to find a photo of my cute neice, I just type in her name and they all come up. Also, a huge mass of others photos. I would always be able to find a photo from someone to go along with whatever I decided to blog about - great!
Facebook - So, I loved Flickr already for photo tagging, but then along came Facebook - where you tagged someone in a photo, and then they would know, and there friends would know. It's great! So, a friend uploads a photo, with me in it, tags me and everyone else.. I get notified, look at the photo and see that some friends I haven't seen in ages are also tagged - from there I can contact them, find out how they are doing etc. Even people who I don't know may upload a funny photo, or video or post a note about a person that I do know.. more insight into my friends lives. Amazing.
BoardGameGeek - so this is my newest venture. I am a board game geek - I have just bought my 100th board game, and you know what? I don't get to play them very often, it's really hard to decide what to play.. depends on your mood, who's playing an how many people want to play.. It takes ages to find a suitable game... but when you can tag your games.. you can search for a game with particular tags.. say, 'short' and '3-player'.
OK.. so my final one may not be classed as tags.. but surely a search engine really just searches via words which are tags....?? Do you agree?
Tags.. what an amazing invention.. I'm still trying to get used to using them effectively in G-Mail, Blogger and LibraryThing actually. In LibraryThing I use others tags.. but don't really put tags on my own books to use.
3 comments:
I don't get it - what is your Tag Cloud? and I'm also on BoardGame Geek - user name is GeekGamerAlan - how do we share our geek games?
My tag cloud is the thing at the very top of my blog.. has loads of words.. the bigger the word the more times it appears in my blog. If you click one, you get to see where.
I've added you as a GeekBuddy!
Nice one Hedge! Now you can add to your various profile that you're an "award-winning internet contributor"!!
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