Comments on: Tagging Roundup

By: Ara

Ara — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:01:55 +0000

What I don’t understand is, why can’t CMS’ like WordPress just generate tags based on those you use to file your posts? You’re already checking off a bunch of boxes to say “this post is filed under CSS” for example. The work’s already done! AI or not, sometimes you just can’t beat human intervention.

By: Kevin Hale

Kevin Hale — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:59:37 +0000

What’s interesting is that tagging and categorization require extra human effort to organize this data. It would be nice to be able to get systems (AI) smart enough to do this for us. Yahoo’s keyword/keyterm API is a good first step, but we need to see these things integrated into our content managers and such. There have been some backlash against auto-tagging but I don’t see the problem if you’re able to also append autotagging with human editorial control. Smart tagging system need not only to be able to find the keywords in a post or piece of information, they need to understand the synonyms and concepts that also govern that knowledge.

By: Ara Pehlivanian

Ara Pehlivanian — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:25:30 +0000

It's insane how much information is out there. I can hardly keep up with my daily reading. If tagging can help better organize that information, so much the better.

By: Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:30:52 +0000

Thanks, Ben. Glad you enjoy all of it.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:54:39 +0000

You guys pick the best topics to write about. Thanks! BTW, Treehouse is excellent, i will be buying my subscription