Tag your way out of digital clutter
For anyone who has ever seen the 1966 Batman movie and laughed over the ridiculous signs hanging around the Batcave this one’s for you. It appears “tagging” is now all the rage and promises to liberate us from having to sort through too much data. Most tagging involve social networks, such as del.icio.us, 43 Things, Flickr, and Technorati.
Some offline applications have also introduced tagging, namely the Adobe Photo Album. Hopefully one day more tagging applications will be available to tag everything on our PC, from email to Word documents. In the meantime I will be going around the office affixing signs to everything, “Bat-Watercooler”, “Bat-Printer”, “Bat-Web Server” ….