As I've been playing with things like Flickr and RSS feeds, I've noticed that people use free form tagging, which I found incredibly frustrating. Maybe there is a hidden cataloguer in me after all! Without knowing what tags people (and lets face it - at this stage probably mainly American early 20's aged people) might have used.
Listening to the podcast and reading about this 'social' tagging has not yet convinced me. I don't necessarily want to see who else has tagged things in a similar way to me. And who else out there is looking at what and how people are tagging. I think there is a danger of people becoming exposed because the wrong kind of people are using the information they are providing in a way they never meant for it to be provided.
Certainly for marketing purposes, unsolicted emails could be sent to targeted people, based on tags they have selected. And so on. Or maybe I'm being paranoid...
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