Volksonomy: tags for the people

re: Volksonomy: tags for the people

jledgard — Thu, 26 May 2005 19:58:20 GMT

I'd suggest my concept of tagging is social. There are well over 1k bloggers on MSDN. Letting them collaborate over loosely coupled catagor tags is social.

I've also never suggested you can't have both systems. I might enter a post as one catagory, but a user might be able to tag it as another. I didn't get to that part in my request becuase I do believe that just letting the 1k people collaborate is a hard enough problem that should be solved first.

re: Volksonomy: tags for the people

KorbyP — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:34:12 GMT

Josh, I think that your idea is interesting. FTR, I do not suggest that *anyone* be allowed to tag content on blogs.msdn.com. Only authenticated users (those who take the time to sign in using Passport) should be allowed to do so.

I agree that readers will benefit immensely from the standardization of tag/category names like "Visual Studio"|"Visual Studio .NET"|"VS.NET" [pick one], whether they suggest the name or we do.

I also agree that it will probably be easier to enable intra-collaborative tagging/categorization between Microsoft bloggers.

However, enabling all authenticated readers to tag our content (extra-collaboratively)will, over the long term, keep us from descending into the blogging equivalent of an echo chamber. When we create a "community" tag, will users understand that we're talking about blogging/wikis/forums in VS.NET, SQL Server, etc as well as on MSDN/Gotdotnet/Ch9 or will they think that we're talking about social events in Redmond? When you and I agree to use the "source control" tag, many CVS and Subversion users won't realize that we're blogging about what they know as 'version control' and do we even know what AutoCad and other fringe users call it? Configuration Management? CM? SCM? I dunno and neither do you. That's why it's so important to let readers help us out. They have intersecting interests, languages, and frames of reference that can enliven and inform our development of next generation software development and system management tools and platforms.

re: Volksonomy: tags for the people

KorbyP — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:34:14 GMT

re: Volksonomy: tags for the people

jledgard — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:17:36 GMT

I'm sold on collaborative tagging with registered users... I just think it's easier to crawl with internal tagging (we don't even support real RSS category tags today!) before we run by enabling some ultimate solution.

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