On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Mark Smith wrote: > >> People use "foo: bar" right now because that's all they can do. >> Allowing them to continue doing that as-is would be fine, but >> codifying it seems like the wrong approach. > > Pardon me if this is an idiotic question, but what exactly is > wrong with "foo: bar"? > > It's super easy to figure out what it means and it doesn't take a > lot of figuring out to adopt. I use it even on Delicious now.
*nodnod* to this. Any argument against "foo: bar" can be used against tags/folksonomies in general; likewise, the arguments *for* "foo: bar" are the same as those for tags themselves: easy to create on the fly, low management overhead, etc. K. -- Kirrily Robert [email protected] http://infotrope.net _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
