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There's No Shortcut To Remembering Stuff

"Tagging" in the web context means attaching words or phrases to things as a way to keep them organized. When I tag a URL as I bring it into myFavorites, I create a way to find that URL later, based on the word or words I chose to remember it with. It has benefits for groups and sets of information, but what I'm most interested in in this blog entry is the benefit to the person doing the tagging. To me, the power of tagging for the individual is in it's flexibility and openness, but also because it's actively associative. It involves a split second of deliberation on my part as to what to tag something, and that makes all the difference when it comes to recalling what's there later. I've called your set of tags your overflowing costanza wallet in previous entries.

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Posted on September 20, 2006 2:54 PM

Where are my tags--Google!

Since Dave mentioned my position on tagging, I thought today would be a good chance for me to elaborate on my observations that Google doesn't use tags. Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch points out that Google's new product Notebook doesn't allow for the use of tags. To me, this is no surprise. This has been a notable observation of mine for sometime now.

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Posted on May 16, 2006 12:29 PM

I'm Grumpy About Pre-defined Tagging

Conversations about tagging seem to be following me around lately. By tagging, I mean the practice of individual users organizing their own content by assigning a word or words to each entry. Like in del.icio.us, when you add a new URL to your overflowing virtual accordion file, you assign "tags" to it so that you can find it and things like it later. It's your own little filing system, and one that you can share with others.

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Posted on April 24, 2006 3:41 PM

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