During our 20 min bus drive back to Sporthotel Igls (Map), I spoke with Thomas about Tagging. I found the slide which Thomas showed wednesday evening - the one with the two triangles - particularly interesting. Thomas mentioned also the problem of tagging blog posts (which is less a problem with del.icio.us). Are the tags about the resource (the linked post or page) or about my own content?

My main question is:
And how can we keep tagging as simple as it is today (see Rashmi Sinha in this regard), but make it more precise and powerful in its daily use and reuse. As Arnaud says Lists and Tagclouds are not the solution.

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Tags and 2D Barcodes

Encode your own URL, Phone Number, Text or SMS at http://qrcode.kaywa.com

For an explanation what QR Codes are, check out my interview with Elisabeth (mp3) in german.




Some call QR Codes "Tags" (like in physical tagging), but whereas a tag is defining something, the QR Code gives you access to something. But naturally I understand that one can talk about physical tagging, as you do not consider the QR code as important, but the resource which it gives access to. Solely, the resource is normally a post or a note and not only a tag.


Some links:
Visualizing Tags over Time
Personal Infocloud
Tagsonomy Blog
Search on Tagging and Tags on my own blog.