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TUAW touts tags
What's a blog without tags these days? I'll tell you what it is, hopelessly out of date. We here at TUAW have been tagging our posts like mad people for awhile now, but all of this tagging has been hidden from you. Today we cast aside the shroud that sheltered our poor little tags from the world's harsh gaze and expose the taggy underbelly of TUAW to you.What does all this mean to you? Well, let's say you're really interested in iPods and you don't much care for the rest of the stuff we blather on about. Go to the following url:
http://www.tuaw.com/tag/ipod/
And it is all iPod, all the time! This is of limited use if you can't subscribe to the tag, right? Luckily you can, just point your newsreader to:
http://www.tuaw.com/tag/ipod/rss.xml
You can do this with any tag you can think of, though if you try sousaphone I don't think you'll have much success. Ain't TUAW the greatest?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
blackout said 9:18PM on 8-14-2006
nice addition, keep up the good work
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Dan said 10:57PM on 8-14-2006
I don't understand this fascination with tagging text. Text is text. It's indexable. It's very nice to provide access to content through the URL, but there's no reason it can't be done intelligently without having to tag everything manually.
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Chase said 12:23AM on 8-15-2006
Thats a really crappy sousaphone
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Matt said 3:44AM on 8-15-2006
#2 It was actually stated in the post why tagging is useful:
"This is of limited use if you can't subscribe to the tag, right?"
This way, if I want all my Leopord news I can just subscribe to the Leopard tag and skip over all that other stuff I'm not so much interested in.
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Dan said 9:32AM on 8-15-2006
Yes, #2, that's why I wrote this:
"It's very nice to provide access to content through the URL, but there's no reason it can't be done intelligently without having to tag everything manually."
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Victor Agreda Jr said 11:57AM on 8-15-2006
Dan, I still don't think you're "getting" tags yet. What manual tagging are you referring to? When bloggers post, they add tags manually. When you type in a URL, you're doing it manually (at least, the first time).
However, once you have the rss feed, it IS automated, in that you only see the content you want. Text is indexable, yes, but the tool you use to index it is kinda important, yes? In this case, we're provided the category for you (see that list on the right), so you can customize your view as you see fit.
If you're talking "automated" like a spider or bot, I see your point. It would still require the use of a human to feed topical nouns, like iPod in there. But a blind crawl of the word "iPod" could potentially bring up stuff you wouldn't necessarily want to see, including posts where the word iPod is used, but it isn't the point of the post.
Text is indexable and very easy to automatically filter. Context, on the other hand, is incredibly difficult. Ask those guys at Microsoft working on voice recognition.
But if you have a better solution, I am all ears. Seriously!
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