Re: tagging for dummies?

Pete Goldsmith writes:
> For a tagging explanation, check out the bastion of all that is good, wikipedia;
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29
> 
> For pyblosxom tagging support, check out the tags plugin;
> 
> http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/registry/meta/tags.html

Thanks, but now I'm even more confused than I was before. :-)

Those two pages give very different answers.  Wikipedia doesn't
address tagging in RSS, but the example they give for HTML looks like
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/folksonomy" rel="tag">folksonomy</a>

The tags plugin, on the other hand, seems to say that each user
should invent a new syntax for tags, but it gives as its example:
<span class="tags">Tags: biking, pennsylvania</span>
(I'm not clear whether this also extends to RSS or not).

> My take on it is say you have a category called motorcycle and you
> post about your trip to NoWhereVille in NoWhereLand. You might wish to
> also tag it with 'travel' 'pissup' 'adventure' etc. to facilitate
> visitors finding out about your other travels and booze filled
> rendezvous with the milk maids of <insert country here>

That's a nice answer to the question "Why use tags?" But my
question remains, "How do I add tags to my pybloxsom blog entries?
What tag syntax do external search engines look for?"

	...Akkana

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