A blog earlier this year highlighted an interesting article on the merits of tagging – focussed on accuracy. The article Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems: An Examination of Tagging Practices is well worth a read.
Hot on the heals of this is a BBC News article Tagging ‘takes off for web users’ which reports on the increased use of tagging by web-users.
Roll on Gwagle, shortly to hit the alpha-testing phase.
Trip Database Blog 
February 8, 2007 at 4:25 am
I am thinking of another way of tagging like, what a student does when he/she reads physical books, they underline important points, they add some comments by pen/pencil. These come handywhen they review and wants to go through the book quickly. Similarly if one is reading books/journals/studies online and if they are able to do the same (underline, add comments)then i think it would be great.There is a pdf reader (foxit) which allows to do all these for offline pdf documents, andi am finding it very helpful. Hope google hears this and comes out with some innovation on these lines. This will also be a good push for books.google.com
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