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A Guide to Tags and Tagging

March 11th, 2010 fbis No comments

Modern websites and blogs often provide a feature called a ‘Tag Cloud’. It contains a series of words that are common across the site and sized according to how many times they are used. Larger words are more common, smaller ones less so.

When people initially start tagging they tend to use the wrong words and overuse the tags system to relate items together. This leads to a tag cloud that isn’t as useful as it could be. Read more…

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