Tagging? or street art? Where is the division between the two here? Possibly another grey-area, like music/sound.
Personally, I really distain the defacement of other peoples' property. Tagging is vandalism and is destructive, self-centred and RUDE!!! However, (call me a hypocrit) I really would LOVE to see more street-art out there. By street-art, I am meaning the sneaky, cheeky, often thought provoking art (stencil or freehand) that pops up in various places around town, as well as graffiti art that brings to life otherwise dreary, grey, industrial /city walls... (e.g. the cool graffiti down on the walls of the Leith under the fourth-street bridge). I think its great!!!... But tagging, the scrawl of a signature as a way to mark territory, is under another category, or 'tag'...i.e. 'vandalism'...
I was fully being facetious with that above response. I realise the question relates to the type of category tags on blogs and on 'favourites' / 'bookmarks'. Pretty handy, I think. In this case, a blog response on 'tagging' could be under the tag 'categorisation' or 'street-art' or, as I feel, 'vandalism'. The usefulness of the 'tag' system of categorising is highlighted here - it helps to eliminate confusion where there could be a number of possible interpretations of content or content key-words.
Also very handy for both the blogger and the bloggee (is that the right term for someone who reads a blog???). Tagging helps the blogger to organise his/her log and the reader to quickly select and go to the appropriate entry. A win-win...yippeee!!!
Categories I envisage using:
Digital Literacy 1; Social; Surfing; Painting; Ponder This!
I imagine categories will arise as blog entries are written.
Now, what DO I tag this entry?
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