I was thinking about this over the weekend, and I had just about scrapped the idea of having two boxes (public and private). I figured that with a controlled vocabulary to check against any ill defined tags could be automatically filtered out of the public landscape. They would show up for the user when logged in, but otherwise could be ignored.
However, I pitched this idea to my wife and she pointed out that if users don't want their tags to be seen then they would want to mark them as private. She conjectured that they wouldn't feel comfortable trusting an automatic filtering system or just letting them display to the public. It defintitely gives me something to think about and I will approach a set of users soon to see what they would like. (Academic Setting)
Jason Fleming
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Finally, when you speak of tags on item and tags on works, it drifts
away from what makes tagging good. Users tag because it's quick,
almost thoughtless. The way you see it is the way you tag it. For the
idea to be useful, it would need to be implemented. That means telling
users to tag some things in one box and other things in another. Users
don't want to be information professionals.
Tim
Received on Tue Feb 27 2007 - 15:13:11 EST