{"id":156,"date":"2007-02-03T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-02-03T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T13:28:00","slug":"tagging-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/03\/tagging-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagging Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using del.icio.us<\/a> for a few years now. I really like how it works. Before that I’d used Backflip<\/span><\/a>, but tagging works better for me than filing. Therefore, I’m glad tagging is slowly expanding to other apps. I can tag my photos in iPhoto<\/span>, and my mail in Gmail. In fact, in the apps that don’t have it, I keep losing things– for example, I wish our Outlook at work could tag. I wish my Mail.app and even the Finder at home could, although Spotlight usually does find what I need eventually.<\/p>\n

Given my success with tagging, it surprises me that in the past few weeks, I keep finding myself at a loss for a tag. Usually what happens is that reading a blog post leads me to a website that I want to tag. I’ll hit the del.icio.us tool on my web browser which takes me to my del.icio.us account, and there I sit. I can’t figure out what tags to give the page. <\/p>\n

I think my problem lies in that given my new job, I’m often now sure of why or how I’m going to use the information. I know it is good stuff and I’ll want to get to it again, but I don’t yet have a big enough picture to foresee where.<\/p>\n

Another piece of the problem is that my tags are so full, are so broad, that they are starting to feel less useful. For example, two years ago I started to use a web_apps tag. Back then I was adding a page or two a month using that tag. Now I could add a few a week. The tag is too broad to be useful, but I don’t really want to start breaking the apps down by type. I need a different way to organize them, but I can’t see what it is. <\/p>\n

I’m experiencing that same confusion in many areas. For example, there have been a number of interesting education manifestos on the web and samples of next generation tech planning. How to tag those beyond ed_change and tech_coord<\/span>? I’ve tried seeing how other people have tagged the same sites, but that hasn’t given me any better ideas yet. Is anyone else experiencing this tagging block? Has anyone found a way around it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using del.icio.us for a few years now. I really like how it works. Before that I’d used Backflip, but tagging works better for me than filing. Therefore, I’m glad tagging is slowly expanding to other apps. I can tag my photos in iPhoto, and my mail in Gmail. In fact, in the apps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagging","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}