To remember our reserve of ideas - tagging is in there - but as a way of thinking about them and using them more, Emmet and I discussed if the tags for this blog should be at the top of the page.

I was first properly introduced to tagging by Emmet last July. I was explaining how I was interested in the tagging of ethnographic fieldwork and was investigating software that helped achieve this, and that I had seen Flickr and was wondering how that was working. Emmet explained it in the following way.

Instead of putting something in one compartment and trying to search for it, like trying to find a book in a library, you can stick flags on that book in virtual space or any object in virtual space. On each flag you can write different things. For instance, the tags I have applied to this post/bucket are: ‘tags flickr code’, and so now I can find this post under any of those headings. Before this I would have had to develop a system of categorization so that I could find things, such as anything to do with ‘Tagging’. I would have been forced into deciding where this post should go, or I would have had to duplicate this post so it sat in different places. Now, books/objects/buckets can be easily found in multiple places/searches without duplication. This enables different types of energy to be reserved.

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