{"id":10843,"date":"2007-09-27T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T09:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/27\/tagging-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T09:46:06","slug":"tagging-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/27\/tagging-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagging thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This post is somewhat related to my previous rant “The mess with notes<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

One of the things that I lost control of are my bookmarks.\u00c2\u00a0 At one point in time I decided that my bookmarks are the same as, or rather a part of, my notes.\u00c2\u00a0 And I started to treat them the same way.\u00c2\u00a0 And they ended up in the mess together with my notes.\u00c2\u00a0 But I was wrong.<\/p>\n

Bookmarks can be managed rather nicely with one of the many web services out there.\u00c2\u00a0 I always enjoyed the way del.icio.us<\/a> does that and I don’t know what got into me, that I stopped using it.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, no, I know.\u00c2\u00a0 I stopped using del.icio.us when I messed up all my bookmarks.\u00c2\u00a0 No surprise there.<\/p>\n

The thing that got terribly wrong with my bookmarks was tagging.\u00c2\u00a0 Tagging is still a concept that many people try to put their heads around, but a few years ago it was even worse.\u00c2\u00a0 I like tagging in that it does not require any strict hierarchy.\u00c2\u00a0 But my mistake was thinking that tagging does not require strict rules.<\/p>\n

Without strict rules it’s very easy to end up in the mess.\u00c2\u00a0 In a mess that I am in right now.\u00c2\u00a0 For example, I started tagging RSS related pages with “aggregator”, “aggregators”, “feed”, “feeds”, “xml”, “rss”, “atom”.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s just too much.\u00c2\u00a0 And later I started worrying that I won’t find some bookmark unless I tag it with all of those.\u00c2\u00a0 My tags grew like mushrooms after rain.<\/p>\n

What I should have done is tag bookmarks with as specific tags as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 If the page is about RSS, it should be tagged with “rss”, not with “aggregators” and “xml” and “feeds”.\u00c2\u00a0 “blogging” is about the worst tag ever.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s too generic.\u00c2\u00a0 It should be either “wordpress” or “writing” or “seo” or something like this.<\/p>\n

But I’m going to fix that.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m removing all bundles, tags, and bookmarks from my del.icio.us account right now (gotta love Perl for things like Net::Delicioius<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 They are too messed up even for me to use.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll start from scratch.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’ll see where it’ll get me. \u00c2\u00a0 And this time around, I’ll try to use descriptions too.\u00c2\u00a0 They are much more helpful than I thought or cared for originally.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

This post is somewhat related to my previous rant “The mess with notes“. One of the things that I lost control of are my bookmarks.\u00c2\u00a0 At one point in time I decided that my bookmarks are the same as, or rather a part of, my notes.\u00c2\u00a0 And I started to treat them the same way.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading Tagging thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8868,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/24\/installed-delicious-smart-tagging-plugin-for-wordpress\/","url_meta":{"origin":10843,"position":0},"title":"Installed del.icio.us Smart Tagging Plugin for WordPress","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I've installed del.icio.us Smart Tagging Plugin for WordPress. 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