[Tagdb] TagCamp 2005 trip report

[Bill Ward]

Tags: emailtags tagcamp

On 11/7/05, Jeremy Dunck <jdunck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tags: rainonparade tagcamp ;-)
>
> On 11/7/05, Nitin Borwankar <nitin at borwankar.com> wrote:
> >...To be successful an app must give the user benefit with
> > minimum work and the group benefit should just fall out of that for
> > free. Del and to some extent Flickr seem to fit into that model.
> >
> ...
> > a) a meme - tag your email on the first line with Tags: ..... pass it on
> > in future this helps search email on list archives far better than
> > using the subject line or even your inbox in future when Tag search is
> > available. This kind of tag tags content as the sender intended it to be
> > tagged. GMail tags it as the recipient wants to tag it - these are
> > complementary and different - you may tag this email -"reference" or
> > "trash" which is your view of the
> > same data. Start tagging email and make it more useful to the receiver.
>
> Not to be a drag, but how is that better than a descriptive subject
> line? The concatenation of words to form an effective keyword? I
> think tags work when there are enough different contributors so that
> the (inherent) variety of tag choices starts overlapping anyway.
>
> Also, without the list of already-used tags at hand, tag choices will
> be uninformed-- again, making it less useful for a small group.
>
> And to your first take-away, how does benefit me in an obvious and
> immediate way? :)


It's mainly useful when used with mailing lists. Currently there are no
mailing list programs that support tagging but one can easily envision that
being added if there's a demand. The idea is the same as tagging blog posts
- to make it easier to find content based on tags. A site like technorati
could start spidering the public archives of mailing lists.

--Bill.

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