#13 (23 Things)

Q: Share your thoughts about tagging.

A: It's fine, as long has you have a standardized method for arriving at the tags.

Q: Is tagging a useful way to organize your digital resources and why?

A: MY resources? Yes. A "social bookmarking" group? No.
Not unless everyone agrees on the tagging protocols, tag names, filing conventions and standards for inclusion in the list. And that's not gonna happen.

Q: What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages?

A: One may select a particular filing system that works for them. It may not work for others. Now, invite some outsiders in to 'help' you. How long will it be before you can't find anything?

Q: What is important to think about before assigning tags to bookmarks or other Internet content?

A: What mnemonics or other devices will best 'jog your memory' to remind you of the content of the given entry.

NOTE: Frankly, I used delicious for about a year. I found it cumbersome and goofy. I need a file to remind me what the tags meant.

Eventually, I dumped delicious, and now use a nice, simple folder and subfolder organization in bookmarks. I could output this list and carry it on a flash drive 'back in the day'.

When it became available, I opened up a FoxMarks account so I could access them anywhere in the world. Much easier, neater and cleaner.

Oh! And anything I want to share is sent by email... Then it's YOUR filing system that gets to deal with it!