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A conversation on tagging
(Read the original post at DTH Magic Bullet)
At the suggestion of Paul Jones at The Daily Tar Heel’s first Innovation Team meeting, I spoke with Thomas Vander Wal, principal and senior consultant of InfoCloud Solutions, Inc., and a student of Web tagging.
The audio of our talk is available here.
Basically, we discussed how the DTH’s new site can integrate user tags with the ones our own staff are going to provide. We came to a consensus on that users should definitely be able to suggest tags, though they should be moderated. That will help us know what readers are looking for, but avoid some of the obscene tags that could come through unfettered access. We also discussed the utility of individual user pages that could compile those user-generated tags and link to the stories that the reader had tagged.
Another interesting idea: Letting a reader “curate” our stories for a month, tagging them as he or she sees fit.
Keep up with the Innovation Team and the DTH’s new Web site at www.dthmagicbullet.wordpress.com.
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