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دسته: tagging

  • Reading and Writing

    “Unlike modern readers, who follow the flow of a narrative from beginning to end, early modern Englishmen read in fits and starts and jumped from book to book. They broke texts into fragments and assembled them into new patterns by transcribing them in different sections of their notebooks. Then they reread the copies and rearranged the patterns while adding more excerpts.

    Reading and writing were therefore inseparable activities. They belonged to a continuous effort to make sense of things, for the world was full of signs: you could read your way through it; and by keeping an account of your readings, you made a book of your own, one stamped with your personality.”

    Robert Darnton

    For the readers unlike modern readers there is Gmail, social bookmarking and so many other tagging and personal information management tools.

  • Expressing yourself

    Tagging allows you to express your opinion about content and make your judgments, opinions, and identity part of the system.

    In social tagging systems, some tags serve a dual purpose. Take the tag “funny,” for instance. When you use it, you’ve created a way to re-find something you thought was funny. But you’re also telling other users of the system about what you find humorous, and you’re communicating something about who you are.

    At the music-sharing site Last.fm, many people use the tag “seen live” to identify the artists they’ve seen and, presumably, to tell other users who they’ve seen as well. It’s like the online version of wearing the T-shirt you bought at the gig.