July 28, 2005

tag pimping

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Even if your heart is in the right place, Chris, trying to tell other peo­ple what tag to use kinda sorta defeats the pur­pose, don’tcha think?
Tags, not trees. Right, Sig?

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2 Responses to “tag pimping”

  1. Christopher Carfi says:
    July 28, 2005 at 2:57 AM

    >sorta defeats the pur­pose, don’tcha think?
    Actually, um…no.
    I don’t give a rip “what” tag is used. So, this is much more of a “hey, how do we do this?” vs. a “telling.” If something is bet­ter than “new­voi­ces,” hell, let’s all go for it. (This cer­tainly doesn’t prec­lude someone from using any tags they want in *addi­tion* to “newvoices”…but if we all agree on a com­mon tag to indi­cate a new intro we’d like to make to our res­pec­tive com­mu­ni­ties, we may want to do it all the same way, as will be explai­ned below.)
    Also, frankly, don’t even care if a tag-based sys­tem is the solu­tion. The pie­ces are here, the invest­ment cost is near-zero, and the impact is huge. So, why the heck not?
    Let’s back up. There is a pro­blem, as I see it. (And if you disa­gree, would be very inte­res­ted in having that con­ver­sa­tion as well.)
    The pro­blem is thus: It’s really easy for peo­ple who get already get a bunch of links to get a bunch more links. It’s mode­ra­tely easy for a per­son who gets a few links to get an occa­sio­nal link. Howe­ver, like trying to start a camp­fire without enough oxy­gen (not FUEL mind you, but oxy­gen), those occa­sio­nal links to the occa­sio­nally lin­ked don’t get the fire going.
    The need is for a way to pro­vide some leve­rage for those who aren’t A-listers.
    This is a way to pro­vide that leve­rage. This is a way to pro­vide a *com­mon* “social ges­ture” ( http://www.greg-brooks.com/000072.html )…a com­mon way to indi­cate the follo­wing com­plex thought:
    “HEY! I’d like you to meet someone new who I think is really neat.“
    If we all do this in a simi­lar man­ner, that ges­ture can be easily iden­ti­fied as something that might be of inte­rest to those who are inte­res­ted in brea­king out of the same old patterns.

  2. hugh macleod says:
    July 28, 2005 at 9:17 AM

    I hear ya, Chris… thanks for the further expla­na­tion.
    It’s a neat idea, anyway…