Our readings about tagging painted a beautiful picture of non-hierarchically organized knowledge and invited us into a world wherein knowledge is socially constructed through tags and their close cousins. new iPhone. While both authors gave some lip service to the obvious possibility of an incorrectly tagged post, neither of them dealt with the commercial motivations behind tagging - as if everyone uses tags to add to the social-bin-of-knowledge. iPhone 4S. Chris Cooley.
Of course, tags also have some influence on where your post (or photos, videos, etc.) end up within a search engine's results (whether generally in Google, or within a community-specific search engine like Blogger or Flickr). new iPhone. At a rather innocent level, it could just be that people want their posts read more frequently but I can't help but notice at the top of my post-editor right now is a tab that reads: Monetize. Chris Cooley. iPhone 4S. Depending on how you have a site set up, more hits from search engines could mean more money for the tagger.
Google is kind enough to let us in on what the most common searches are for any particular day, and today's happen to be "new iPhone" and "Chris Cooley." I talked to a popular blogger who received hundreds of thousands of hits a month from all of the world who also happened to make a little bit of money from allowing ads and linking to specific stores where people could buy items he mentioned - tools that he opted to include in his blog - and he said that the monetizing tools changed the way he tagged and composed his blog. new iPhone. Do any commercial considerations have to be considered before we look to a new digital way of compiling and organizing information? Is it any different outside the digital space? Chris Cooley.
I read the articles favorably, but I do think there are some questions that we should ask before we fully embrace the web-like, tag-dependent organization found on the internet.
For a real example of how I would use tags in a blog you are encouraged to visit my other blog. new iPhone Chris Cooley.
Also I suggest taking a tour of Google Zeitgeist - it is pretty interesting.
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