On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:46 PM, James Morley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So, setting up a tag is no bad thing, as long as the messaging is clear
> about how it should be used, and stimulates people into thinking where they
> could use it too.
Seb Chan shared a link to this very interesting study of tags on Flickr
yesterday: http://www.tekka.net/10/tags.html - well worth a read.
I've always thought that Flickr should enable comments on the tag pages (eg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mw2009), so that the tags can become a
kind of ad-hoc group, with people using the comments to explain what the tag
is about, or is connected to.
I also personally prefer tag interfaces which accept comma-separated tags,
rather than space-separated ones - this seems to be more intuitive, to me at
least, and would avoid the problem of people typing in "Science Museum",
inadvertantly tagging their photo with "science" and "museum" rather than
the more useful "science museum" (though I guess preferably they'd add all
three).
If people are inspired to go through and re-tag their old photos (I know I'm
pretty lazy with tagging sometimes), the 'Organize' tool is pretty powerful:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/
Gosh, I could talk about tagging all day... :)
Cheers,
Frankie
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Frankie Roberto
Experience Designer, Rattle
0114 2706977
http://www.rattlecentral.com
Sent from Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
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