But that’s really the direction of my post– these future systems are by no means a given (which may well be one of the more negative aspects of the “good enough” approach that makes tagging itself so incredibly useful!).

You know I’ve been of two minds about tagging. But of late I am leaning back toward the pro-tag side—assuming there is a way to implement shared tags, author tags and user tags. They could all be idiosyncratic, and a tag cloud seems a nice way to show which tags are highly valued. I don’t know how close we are to having such an app.

Part of what got me back on the wagon is recent participation in a bbs and the notion of being on topic or “drifting.” I also got to thinking about cross-posting in that environment. Communication by blog, such as this, is much less silo-like in structure. What I got to imagining was a system wherein a post would go up once, but could be infinitely tagged. If I choose to read the “folksonomy” tag it would show up in that context, if I choose to read the “comments by chris” tag it would show up in that context. Maybe this is all obvious at your level of the game. But it would be cool, I think, to develop some kind of reader that could not only give me your site, but give me your tags and allow me to paste my own. The third item, which I suppose technorati offers to some extent, would be a distributed tag db of shared user tags.

Ill formed and rambling, maybe I should have had my morning coffee first. Sorry if it’s all old ground, but if it bears review I’d love to follow along.

Peace,
Robert

Even in the localized space, advances have been dismally slow. With all the information that they have in some of the systems… only flickr and library thing have, to my mind, really started doing some interesting things with it.

I’m less interested in tags across all the tools, and see little problem or dismal-ness in that tags perform well and provide valuable service at the specific tool level.