Comments on: Wil Wheaton and Tagging

By: Pornografia

Pornografia — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:07:24 +0000

Leggo ed imparo sul vostro luogo. grazie!

By: Welcome Will to the Flock family! at A Fool’s Wisdom

Welcome Will to the Flock family! at A Fool’s Wisdom — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:56:31 +0000

[...] Not Wil Wheaton, who did recently try Flock to Daryl’s interest. Much more exciting than Wheaton trying Flock, Will Pate is enjoying his first day as a Flock employee! [...]

By: dllh

dllh — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:21:08 +0000

Hi, Wil. I definitely didn’t take your comments as an undue criticism. (And without user criticism, how could we ever hope to improve our product anyway?) I was thrilled that you mentioned us and just wanted to springboard off your comments into what I hoped would be a useful post about how tagging needn’t be scary. Not being much of a web 2.0 junkie myself, I like to try to demystify it a bit when I have an opening to do so. Thanks a bunch for the mention and the followup.

By: Wil

Wil — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:06:22 +0000

I hope you know that I wasn’t criticizing your work, Daryl, and I agree with everything you wrote in this post.

By: Daniel J. Wilson

Daniel J. Wilson — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:13:34 +0000

Have you been following development of the Epiphany browser for GNOME? They have bookmark tag (topic) auto-complete working in the latest version.

By: dllh

dllh — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:27:33 +0000

I totally agree, Lloyd. But since Wil mentioned tagging, I thought it appropriate to address it and downplay the value of tagging for tagging’s sake.

By: Lloyd D Budd

Lloyd D Budd — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:32:56 +0000

If I had an elevator ride to sell Wil on Flock, I would tell him to forget about tagging. I understand Flock is not doing a great job making them useful yet, and maybe still it is not for him. I would first get him to chew on the other features of Flock that he over looked. Some of those features, you have written about previously.

By: Aine

Aine — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:30:51 +0000

I find tagging useful on my blog (Ultimate Tag Warrior works really well for WordPress), being able to find entries just by clicking on one of the tags in the tagcloud has been an extension of functionality I never thought I was ever going to really put to use. I’m finding the same kind of extension to functionality with tags and Flock. I no longer have to wonder what I did what “that link” or have to wade through folders looking for it.

By: It’s News to Me » Tagging

It’s News to Me » Tagging — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:14:16 +0000

[...] Daryl Houston has a nice post this morning titled Wil Wheaton and Tagging that gives some nice thought to the value of tagging. If you aren’t familiar with what tagging is through such services as Flickr or del.icio.us, you might find this worthwhile reading. [...]