Comments on: Tag along

by: draggin

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:10:44 +0000

good points. my idea in making a relationship between grafitti and tagging is to esablish some precedence for why a user would want to ‘tag’ in the first place. Kinda inspired by that ‘palace of the mind’ stuff.
There are clearly personal benfits to tagging(retreival), but in a public info spaces, you share your ideas with all. Everyone will use the space differently, personal expression will reign, while bubbles of collective activity emerge.

by: Anton

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:00:54 +0000

Graffiti seems to be more about a persons relationship to their environment (I was here), whereas tagging defines the environments relationship to the person (this is a tree, it is green).
The Social aspect of popular folksonomy systems (del.icio.is flickr et al.) creates an interesting combination of the two, allowing a person to share where they have been (be it a bookmark or photo) and to describe what it means to them.

by: nathan

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:20:41 +0000

Interesting post, I’d not thought to compare tagging to graphitti before, despite the obvious linguistic link. It seems like the comparison can be extended beyond tagging, to blogging (what is blogging but a different form of graphitti?), and other forms of new media social network interaction.