[Tagdb] TagCamp 2005 trip report

[Michal Migurski]

>> 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.

I think Jeremy may have meant "how does this benefit me, the sender?" I
can't think of a benefit to mail tagging that's not already addressed via
subject lines, in-reply-to headers, and recipients. What would "tag
support" look like in a mailing list program? Why would Technorati-spider
attention to mail tags be useful, keeping in mind that I don't find their
current blog post tagging particularly helpful.

Tags assigned **by recipients** could be pretty cool. Mailing list
software that supports such tags would be interesting.

-mike.

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