David Weinberger writes about the promise of "tags" as a way to organize, and use, information on the web.
This [Technorati is now indexing tags] is exciting to me not only because it's useful but because it marks a needed advance in how we get value from tags. Thanks to del.icio.us and then flickr in particular, hundreds of thousands of people have been introduced to bottom-up tagging: Just slap a tag on something and now its value becomes social, not individual.Posted by jackhodgson at January 18, 2005 09:30 AM