Judith sent me a link to Tag Tagger which proposes to develop a system for tracking and tagging tags. The proposal is a joke by The Silent Penguin (“Making a dent – somewhere”), but one which points to the infinite regress of information. Tags and links become information at which point they too need to be tagged and linked … see Technorati Tags. (No joke is too funny to be implemented.)
Which reminds to write about Tags, known to the rest of us as “keywords” or “subjects”. In some usability work we are doing on the TAPoR portal we found our users had no idea what “tags” were. Obviously they are not digi-literate enough.