Comments on: Tag Diversity is Good http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/02/13/tag-diversity-is-good/ Calico Jack CTO Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:32:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: chris http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/02/13/tag-diversity-is-good/#comment-874 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:07:36 +0000 http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/02/13/tag-diversity-is-good/#comment-874 Good point Ben - I hadn't thought of the persistence of value like this, but as you suggest, what is the consensus now can become a minority view in the future. In order to preserve the (possibly very significant) value in today's tagging, we need rules that "lift" today's tagging hegemony into tomorrow's new received wisdom. Good point Ben - I hadn’t thought of the persistence of value like this, but as you suggest, what is the consensus now can become a minority view in the future. In order to preserve the (possibly very significant) value in today’s tagging, we need rules that “lift” today’s tagging hegemony into tomorrow’s new received wisdom.

]]> by: Ben Bryant http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/02/13/tag-diversity-is-good/#comment-846 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:37:23 +0000 http://ctoblog.calicojack.co.uk/2007/02/13/tag-diversity-is-good/#comment-846 I followed you here from Jon's blog because I really liked your explanation of tomahto vs tomayto and the freedom to continue on tomahtoing to your heart's content knowing a mature search engine will tie them together. What you're saying here is really the way to go also because you don't want to marginalize or cause all the tags that have gone before to be less valuable if the tide turned towards standardization of tag names. I followed you here from Jon’s blog because I really liked your explanation of tomahto vs tomayto and the freedom to continue on tomahtoing to your heart’s content knowing a mature search engine will tie them together.

What you’re saying here is really the way to go also because you don’t want to marginalize or cause all the tags that have gone before to be less valuable if the tide turned towards standardization of tag names.

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