I tag, You tag, We all tag - The 'Tagging' thing.

After online web-logs (Blogger, msn blogs, et. al.) came RSS feeds and a barrage of readers that could update news and blogs. Around the same time whole bevy of social and professional networking websites (friendster, orkut, Gazzag, LinkedIn, Hi5 et. al.) grew by leaps and bounds in terms of membership. We have slowly (over the past year) evolved into photoblogging, podcasting (thanks to apple for spurring the sale of personal mp3 players) and videoblogging.

Now, there is data and then there is information and then there is the excess of it. So how does the human online community respond to this excess of information. By organizing it. How do you organize it, well, tag it. Everyone gives the content some 'tags' that they believe describe the content in some way. Honestly, when I heard about this tag thing I did not think it was going to be big. I am still not sure if it is going to be big, what with the credibility of the people tagging etc. but if wikis work, so could this tagging thing.

I was checking out this new firefox based browser href="http://www.flock.com" which required me to get membership to this website called the href="http://del.icio.us" This delicious thing looks interesting. You can create online bookmarks on it, tag them based on what you think best describes them and share it with everyone. The Flock browser now supports blogging, posting pics on flickr and also has a neat little scrapbook utility where you can drag stuff for blogging later. I am not sure how good the browser is yet in terms of actual working but will post a review once I use it for a little while.