Thing 13

Tagging has long puzzled me, and I found both the video and the article to be very informative. I've always wondered what the significance of the size of the tag names was in a tag cloud, for example. Pretty cool! Like most, I've organized my favorites into folders, and I will often browse through them and find many, many websites that I have now idea about - why did I tag this? With social bookmarking, I can click on the site and have at least some idea of the content because of the tags that come up when I visit.

Even better than the organization, though, is the ability to network with communities and check in on sites that have been previewed already by people who you know. This can save time in the long run because, presuming you are in a community of people who you trust, you can count on the information within the site being useful and worth further investigation.

It is important to keep in mind some common tagging standards when using tags - if you tag in a way that is only useful to you, then you are less likely to be able to communicate within a tagging community because you are using a different tagging "language" than the rest of the group.