Viva la tags
Hey, I'm an "aboutness" tagger, you?
Tags Are Visible Metadata
"rel="tag" hyperlinks are intended to be visible links on pages and posts. This is in stark contrast to meta keywords (which were invisible and typically never revealed to readers), and thus is at least somewhat more resilient to the problems which plagued meta keywords.
Making tag hyperlinks visible has the additional benefit of making it more obvious to readers if a page is abusing tag links, and thus providing more peer pressure for better behavior. It also makes it more obvious to authors, who may not always be aware what invisible metadata is being generated on their behalf.
As a result the invisible tag link syntax variant: SHOULD NOT be supported by implementations."
Great coversations about tagging:
The tagging culture war by Dave Weinberger gets jump started with a thread from Tom Coates - "Two cultures of fauxonomies collide..",
tag-only blogware etc. etc.. from gapingvoid and,
from incorporated subversion - The new resource: social bookmarks, tagging or something else?
Modern Marketing
"Tags are one of the more subtle - albeit massively disruptive - elements of Internet 2.0 or social software." If you have not read their manifesto on open marketing - now is the time.
Tag mania sweeps the Web - Jon Udell - Inforworld
"Is this a fad or a real breakthrough in information management? I say both. Tagging has attained the elusive cachet of coolness. New taggers feel an initial thrill of empowerment. Venture capitalists, sensing the buzz, are looking to amplify it."