[Tagdb] Multi-Word Tags Vs Single Word Tags

[Michal Migurski]

> Now with multi-word tags users can use entire phrases like 'a trip  
> to london' to tag items which they would have tagged as 'london'  
> 'trip' incase of single word tags. This makes the tagged item  
> difficult to discover, making the tag and thus the user to tagged  
> item relationship non-social (quite opposite to what a tag is  
> supposed to do).
>
> Why dont we define a standard for tagging? It would facilitate many  
> apps utilizing tagging to become interoperable, laying down an  
> architecture of participation.

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This would be a serious vibekiller, I think. Keywords aren't exactly  
a runaway success story.

Multi-word tags: it feels intuitively simpler to me to tag something  
"London" and "trip", and then search for the union of those tags.  
This is in contrast to "London trip", "trip to London", "trip:  
London", and "London (trip)", and many of the other variants that may  
be left unfound by a particular search for a multiword tag. The other  
benefit of single-word tags that I've seen is that they promote  
swarming around a chosen term. Seems like every event I've been to  
this year converges on some shared group tag that names all the  
relevant photos and links, e.g. "etech06" or whatever, which  
translates very cleanly and unambiguously into URLs: http:// 
del.icio.us/tag/etech06, http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/etech06/,  
http://technorati.com/tag/etech06, etc.

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