Paolo Valdermarin wishes the collaborative tagging supported by Flickr, for individual photos, was also possible in the wider blogosphere, for individual blog posts -
"Unfortunately this collaboration doesn't exist in the blogosphere where tagging is limited to blog authors. We have added collaborative tagging to some intranet blogs and the results are interesting, but this would really bloom on the world wild web."
The thing is Paolo, collaborative post tagging is already here! It's just that Google are being really coy about it.
What I have found myself doing more and more of late is using the tag feature of Google Reader to create personalized tag feeds for some of my contacts and colleagues. For instance here's a page (and corresponding feed) of the posts I've tagged 'mobile'.
Google Reader makes it simple and quick to add tags - shortcut keystroke 't' (for tag), then comma, then 'mobile', and Enter. Done. I've effectively become an information router down to the most granular level, i.e., Feed -> Post -> tag1, tag2.... tagn
Of course Google aren't yet exposing the full tag set assigned to each post but here's a bet they'll be doing so very shortly. It'll be a Technorati killer!
Technorati Tags: collaborative, tagging, google reader, paolo
I see Mobileblogr in there, muchos gracias :)
Posted by: Ken McGuire | November 22, 2006 at 11:20 AM
No, thank *you* Ken for the great mobile blog.
My first blog was MMSMemo - http://mmsmemo.blogspot.com/ - so as you can guess I'm a big fan of the topic and love being able to keep up to pace with developments. Especially now that I'm after losing my Nokia 6630 :(
Posted by: James Corbett | November 22, 2006 at 11:29 AM
Lost it? Bugger. Looking into making Mobileblogr *more* mobile so I can get to post from the phone or via mms myself :) Been a nice few developments under Symbian since your last MMS Memo post!
Posted by: Ken McGuire | November 22, 2006 at 11:41 AM
Chris Davis created a plugin allowing any individual tag his blog posts and he wrote about his experiences: http://tinyurl.com/ygr22o, I just hope Chris releases the plugin soon!
Posted by: Liam Burke | November 22, 2006 at 01:45 PM
Thanks Liam, great link.
Yes Ken, lots of developments for sure and I'm looking forward to catching up on them with a nice new shiny Nokia N95 :-)
Posted by: James Corbett | November 22, 2006 at 03:12 PM