The April 18th issue of Newsweek, the article In the New Game of Tag, All of Us Are It by Steven Levy, talks the practice of tagging. Tagging is a process done on the fly where people do the categorizing and label information on the web so that it can be easily retrieved later. It is an interesting article. It mentions two sites. Del.icio.us which bills itself as a social bookmarks manager, categorizing your personal collection of web page links. Flickr, a photo storage and share site. According to the article "order seems to emerge from the chaos of freestyle labeling," and these two sites illustrate that.

As a librarian there is something deep within my core that screams that user tagging will create chaotic pool of information. However, the user side of me tells me that this might be good and users seem to want this. Two little devils sitting on my shoulders debating tagging, maybe I should get out more often.