Re: [Fofredux-devel] beta v0.2 ready for testing

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

I think what I'm trying to say is tags are great - but are often too
explicit/small. For example, in my del.icio.us tags, I tend to have 3
or 4 bookmarks with any 1 tag. This makes them not that useful for
broad readings. I want more than just "cocoa" or "auto" tags. I want
"Politics" or "Technology".

I guess I'm just being too picky. Using tags in general would let me
go ahead and mark these broad generalizations for feeds and then read
a group of feeds based on "Technology" etc. So I think just supporting
tags is fine (albeit much harder).

What about the problem of "tag soup". People are very liberal with
tagging - and not always consistent either. Any suggestions?

Andy
nilspace

On 11/21/05, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
>            Andrew Turner wrote:
>
> >   I can see the benefits of having a user-defined taxonomy of tags. For
> >one thing, many feeds supply the blog's categories for the item - so we
> >could optionally apply these tags by default.  I would also like to keep
> >categories for a more general genre type of organization of feeds. For
> >example, I want to pull up all of my "technology" feeds, but may not wan=
t
> >to have that as a tag (where tags would be like mac, programming, php).
> >But maybe not.
>
> Let me see if I understand you correctly.  You see categories as either:
>
> 1) a completely separate concept separate of tags.  (containers are used
> with feeds only, tags are used with items only)
> 2) a higher level grouping or container of tags.
>
> I really don't have an opinion either way.  I *can* say that implementing
> option #1 will be much easier.
>
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> Kevin
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