Actually, there are quite a few.
I'm not sure that a video of tagging is the best way to explain the concept, though
demonstrating it can't hurt. My guess is that there are numerous videos about
tagging because both of these became prevalent on the web at about the same time.
Still, they can be quite interesting. Jakob Lodwick (from the previous page) posted
two movies on the subject (here
and here). Beth Kanter
(she of the
T-shirt I love) whose still
photo explanation of what tags are has deservingly made the rounds, has also
posted a screencast.
This screencast can be a helpful tool, but I may perhaps be excused for a bit
of semantic nit-picking about part of it.
Within the screencast Kanter states: "in each of these tags". To my
mind the word "in" is quite inaccurate here. It seems to be a holdover
from folders, when something could really (or at least figuratively) be inside
them. Nothing, however, is "in" the tag. Perhaps Kanter might better
have written "for each of these tags", or even avoided the problem altogether
by approaching things from a different angle, such as "each of these tags
represents ...". More than anything else, however, what this digression shows
is that even for those of us who have adapted to using tags, adopting a
new vocabulary that fits the concept is more difficult than it may appear
to be. Thinking in tags may seem easy, even obvious, but it apparently takes some
getting used to.
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