Thing 13

I have similar thoughts on social bookmarking as I did on RSS. The web's size seems to have inspired many methods of organization to deal with such staggering amounts of information. Tagging seems useful--more useful, at any rate, than the independent list of bookmarks on both my home and work computers that are only "organized" in the chronological order in which they were added. Of the dozens saved, I only routinely look at a few, so labeling them seems like an efficient thing to do. After reading the last article though, it seems that tagging is only as effective as the person assigning the tag, so specificity and thoughtfulness are critical in creating organized information. Also interesting to me is the social aspect--what has everyone else called it?--and the process of developing group consensus for a particular label.