Tag: tags

NowPublic Tags

Post ImageAs you can probably tell, I jumped on the tagging bandwagon very early on. I think tags are an excellent way to self-organize the vast amounts of information available to us. So I am really happy to see that NowPublic, a site I have written about before, has added proper tags!

I say proper tags, because while you could tag news at NowPublic in the past, you couldn’t really link to a tag. Now all you have to do is link to http://www.nowpublic.com/tags/edmonton, for example, to see all of the stories tagged with “edmonton”. Previously this required a search of the website.

Very cool! I’m happy to see the site continuously improving – can’t wait til it’s out of beta.

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Create your own TagCloud!

Post ImageI stumbled across TagCloud tonight, and I am really quite impressed! If you’re into tagging and folksonomies and the like, you’ll probably find it interesting too:

TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag’s link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.

Here’s the TagCloud for my blog. Basically, it gives you an idea of what I’ve been talking about lately in my posts. Very cool stuff, I must admit.

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