Why Tags are NOT Categories
Here’s a good read from Carthik Sharma on what are tags and why are they different from categories. quite relevant actually since Wordpress 2.3 has just been released with proper tag support.
Categories organize, hierarchically. Tags need not. Tags provide meta-information, Categories need not. Tags cross-connect, Categories do not. By cross connect, I mean, when you go looking for posts tagged with “Flickr” on technorati, you find posts from various sources, all about Flickr. Now if you go searching for posts tagged with “administration” in technorati, you will find everything from system administration tips to posts regarding the NASA, the NSA, and general verbiage - largely due to poisoning from people who can’t get the difference between tags and categories straight, for the most.
Get your semantics right, wordpress.com folks - please If you don’t you are doing a disservice by poisoning so many indices that work by means of tags. Earlier today, for the nth time, I ended up with a wordpress.com blog as the result, and the entry was totally unrelated to what I was searching for on IceRocket.
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Carthik Sharma
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