This begs a distinction between "proper" and "improper" tagging.
Tags are a memory aid, decided upon by the person doing the
remembering. If some other person with intentions other than recall
choses the tags, then they are indeed improperly chosen.
A person reads an article about some subject and tags it as such. The
publisher is likely to be much more general because they want that
that link to show up in more places if at all possible.
I thus think that allowing this feature would lower the quality of
the system.
One thing that's impressed me is how variable people's tagging
practices are - leaving me unsure as to what "improper" tagging
would look like.
Arguably, allowing publishers to tag their stuff would decrease
tagging creativity, but it might increase the user base, too, which
could increase creativity....
Interesting. This is only part of it for me - and probably the
lesser part.
I value del.icio.us at least as much as a way of finding things I
didn't know to look for - i.e., as an alternative to search - as I
value it as a mnemonic tool.
Fair enough.
But for the record, the context in which this question arose was
NumSum.com. I wanted to post a spreadsheet I had developed to my
own del.icio.us account, and was surprised when their "[Post] to
del.icio.us" link didn't inherit the name or tags I had given the
'sheet.
Theoretically, I could write a little Greasemonkey script to
rewrite these links with my own username, title and tags - which I,
frankly, would prefer to include, whether I'd written them myself
or not, at least in this context - but my javascript chops just
aren't up to snuff, even for such a relatively simple project.
Alas....
Well, at the very least, the publisher CAN supply the title of the
document...
Joshua
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