Pirahna’s blog

(this is a post from Piry’s drafts … so it’s very likely it’s incredibly incoherent, being written piece by piece at different times)

I never liked the tags concept. In my time there were keywords.
As far as I read and understood, these “tags” are used to define an article or a product. I still can’t see the difference between tags and keywords. But maybe I’m just blind, so let’s move on.

In the wonderful world of blogging, tags are used to present in general what the post is about … like “cats, tv, web, haha” … and a tagcloud is used to display the tags … I noticed that usually there are few and very general.
Again, I can’t see why you shouldn’t use keywords to define your article.

Actually tags seem to be second categories (although nobody keeps you from creating more categories and even subcategories in which you can place your post), which again pop the question “Why should I use tags ?“.

I intend not to use tags on my blogs, because a thing called search does exist, categories exist … tags would only help google a little, but a keyword list would help it more.
This seems like a web 2.0 trend (which is also a trend), completely useless (the same as the 2.0 “Beta” icons), when something much better exists, named keywords.

The problem is that by using keywords as tags, bloggers (the scum of the earth) rise up to tell you that you don’t know how to use tags and you’re a loser. But that’s usually fixed with a visit to their lovely homes, with a bat.

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)

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