I'm reading this assignment article about tagging and just feel compelled to write out a few reactions.
Reasons why I don't often tag:
a) It's inconvenient, takes time to do, and I'm always wondering whether I've chosen the "right" ones. (Btw, I hate sites which enforce at least one tag. b) I am super private with my web content so I don't feel the need to share with the world via tagging c) I don't wish to contribute to the "tyranny of the majority" and put my own slants on articles for the world's languages and cultures (see the article, page 6)
Why I don't need tagging to advance and personalize my online searching (that phrasing is from page 1 of the article where they state their views on tagging as goodness):
I live in Google Reader. I subscribe to feeds I know are useful but I also do another thing, which is how I enhance my online searching : I have Google Alerts set up to deliver content directly to my Google Reader. This is how I find and add good sites to my Google Reader. I have alerts on words, person names, and one currently on a sentence I found in an article which I admired so much I wanted to see who on the 'net was quoting it. When Google's engines detect new content containing one of my alerts, they shoot it to a feed on that alert and it shows up soon after in my Google Reader - hooray for Google advancing and personalizing my online searching!
Now, don't get me wrong, I like what tagging does for certain web sites (like youtube) which I frequent. I like how it leads me to new videos I would not have found on my own, for example. But I definitely am not going to take extra time to travel to a site like delicious to see what's cooking in their tagland. I don't need it!
Just thought I'd throw this out there to see if others think similarly or want to tell me what they think is wrong about my thinking or, best of all, want to tell me about some web site using tagging you think I should check out, even given my objections.
p.s. I am tagging in Diigo because I gather it's part of our class duties ;-)
I believe that many types of resources should be available for learning in a course, because people learn in very different ways. If tagging is not useful for you, fine. I know that a substantial proportion of people do benefit from it.
You do have some "course duties," such as doing the readings and occasional assignments like the team-based wiki assignment we will do later. Tagging is not a duty, but an opportunity, and you are welcome to not participate if it is not of value for you.
/ HGSET561/ I don't tag and I don't often need the tagging of others to "advance and personalize" my online searching
Reasons why I don't often tag:
a) It's inconvenient, takes time to do, and I'm always wondering whether I've chosen the "right" ones. (Btw, I hate sites which enforce at least one tag.
b) I am super private with my web content so I don't feel the need to share with the world via tagging
c) I don't wish to contribute to the "tyranny of the majority" and put my own slants on articles for the world's languages and cultures (see the article, page 6)
Why I don't need tagging to advance and personalize my online searching (that phrasing is from page 1 of the article where they state their views on tagging as goodness):
I live in Google Reader. I subscribe to feeds I know are useful but I also do another thing, which is how I enhance my online searching : I have Google Alerts set up to deliver content directly to my Google Reader. This is how I find and add good sites to my Google Reader. I have alerts on words, person names, and one currently on a sentence I found in an article which I admired so much I wanted to see who on the 'net was quoting it. When Google's engines detect new content containing one of my alerts, they shoot it to a feed on that alert and it shows up soon after in my Google Reader - hooray for Google advancing and personalizing my online searching!
Now, don't get me wrong, I like what tagging does for certain web sites (like youtube) which I frequent. I like how it leads me to new videos I would not have found on my own, for example. But I definitely am not going to take extra time to travel to a site like delicious to see what's cooking in their tagland. I don't need it!
Just thought I'd throw this out there to see if others think similarly or want to tell me what they think is wrong about my thinking or, best of all, want to tell me about some web site using tagging you think I should check out, even given my objections.
p.s. I am tagging in Diigo because I gather it's part of our class duties ;-)
You do have some "course duties," such as doing the readings and occasional assignments like the team-based wiki assignment we will do later. Tagging is not a duty, but an opportunity, and you are welcome to not participate if it is not of value for you.