Tagging is an informal method of describing things online in one- or two-word subjects. Tagging is left open to the user to decide which words best fit.
Along this same line is the term folksonomy, which is derived from taxonomy, meaning to categorize, and cleverly adding folks to represent those who determine how to categorize something.
The idea isn't new -- we've been tagging things in the 'real world' forever, adding labels to folders, or pictures, and such. The tags are uncontrolled. What you may see in a picture is a cat but someone else may see kitty or kitten. There is no set vocabulary to tagging, which can make it confusing, so keep your tags simple!
Tags can be added to photos, to web articles (like a subject heading), and even to blog posts -- look at the bottom of this Thing to see the tags I picked to describe Thing 8.
Is tagging a good thing?
For this Thing you are going to think back to Thing 3, when we looked at the tags on pictures on Flickr.
Go ahead and add tags to pictures you uploaded. Search for other tags on that site and don't forget to post a blog entry telling us what you like or don't like about tagging.
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