Re: Dvorak Tagging and Naming

Does the search capability include Boolean operators.  I have a 
similar problem with searches for folksinger Bob Gibson solved, e.g., 
on Google by searching "Bob Gibson" -baseball -pitcher.

Ben Cohen


At 01:36 PM 3/15/07, you wrote:

>Okay everybody, I want to raise an issue that is probably totally off
>the wall: Tagging
>
>I use the del.icio.us (link management) and flickr.com (photo
>management) web sites. Both of these have crowd intelligence and
>social searching aspects, and both of these use tags to do all their
>work. I am in love with tags. Tags are an incredibly powerful tool to
>organize your own data, and they are an incredibly powerful tool to
>discover other people's data that you are interested in or new
>information that you didn't know about.
>
>The issue is that "Dvorak" has two main meanings out there in the
>world: a famous composer (who is really great) and a famous keyboard
>inventor (who is really great). (We can also think of the second one
>as referring to the keyboard itself, not just the inventor.) When I
>found that great picture of the Mac laptop with the keys dvoraked, I
>used flickr's feature "see all photos tagged with dvorak". Of course,
>there were many pictures of keyboards, and many pictures of musicians
>and sheet music and instruments. How can I get just the keyboard
>pictures without the musical pictures - no good way really. If someone
>only knew about the composer, what would they think of the keyboard
>pictures or links?
>
>For my delicious tags, I started out using just "dvorak", but now I
>changed to "dvorakTyping". My hope is that this will distinguish the
>keyboard from the composer in crowd intelligence and social searching.
>Do you agree that this is a good idea? Do you agree that this could
>help win converts to dvorak? Do you think this is the right tag to
>use? Do you think we should try to standardize on one term? What are
>the relative merits of these:
>
>dvorak
>dvorakTyping
>dvorakKeyboard
>
>What else?
>
>And now for the final, really off the wall question: Putting aside the
>desire to pay respects to the man who invented the keyboard, do you
>think that a different name than dvorak would help speed adoption of
>his keyboard?
>
>