Projected Projects > "Tagging And More Tagging"

Ahhh... tagging. The watchword of the world of metadata. Tagging: data about data. It can be such a source of strength and weakness. It's incredibly powerful when implemented correctly. It allows us to dive through vast amounts of data to find exactly what we need. What we want, when we need it. In a world that's ever expanding, tags and tagging are become more and more vital. Implementation, however, is still the one Achilles heel in this system. For the time being, this is by and large, a manual process. And if you're at all familiar with The Digital, manual is a tough pill to swallow when you've become accustomed to a world of automation. Tagging in itself is its only barrier, because it's so daunting to undertake. For the most part we eschew the system. But I'm not going to avoid it any longer. It's time to make another change.

So I'm going to attempt to tag all of these posts from now on to make searching this blog not such a pain in the ass. I'm going to bring order to the chaos. But I'm not making the change for the benefit of future posts. This change in retroactive. I'm going to attempt to tag all of the posts I've published thus far. All 114 of 'em. But it's going to take a while. I don't plan to get this done in a day, of even a few weeks... my plan is to attack the problem bit by bit over an extended period of time. Going full tilt seems too daunting and discouraging and could possibly put me off of the project. So I'm gonna do what I can, when I can.

So why even post about this? Well, it means I get to cheap out on a post. :P But more than that, having something set down in print kinda puts my ass to the fire. I've said I'm gonna do it, so now I'm gonna be held accountable. Maybe not by you, but by my internal Tag Nazi. And it shouldn't be hard. I started tagging my Flickr photos... well I've always been doing that, but I've gone to an extreme with those set of tags. And one of the things I learned about them is that they can always be refined. I think the main inhibitor working against me is my Perfectionism Strain. I kinda wanna get it right from the beginning. I want the system to be complete from the outset. I feel I should be aware of every possible tag I may ever want to use in the future before I begin the process. But that's crazy. I'm gonna just suss out what categories I can already see forming and work from there. Just getting the features in order will be good enough for me. So you can look forward to some order on this blog in the coming days and weeks. Hope you enjoy it. ;)

DS333, organizing.