there is a lot of value in this sort of user-supported system: it gets people interacting with their material and it provides extra points of access in natural language- library of congress subject headings are often not as specific as one wants, or use very formal terms that don't get at the thing's "aboutness" (boom, library school vocab).
however, sometimes the usefulness of tags are overshadowed by their humor and/or the fact that only one person is inputting them.
remember this post?
well, we're here today for round two.
hulu.com: a second love affair with tags
first, tags can be used to differentiate between alternate trailers for the same movie:
it can be just as important to assert what a movie is not about:
expectations of nudity can be clarified, to diminish disappointment in films featuring "sex" as a title word:
remember, spelling only counts if you liked it:
structured subject headings really don't allow anyone to convey their feelings about turtles:
and sometimes, an expression of a movie's content is much less important than how terrible it is:
first, tags can be used to differentiate between alternate trailers for the same movie:
it can be just as important to assert what a movie is not about:
expectations of nudity can be clarified, to diminish disappointment in films featuring "sex" as a title word:
remember, spelling only counts if you liked it:
structured subject headings really don't allow anyone to convey their feelings about turtles:
and sometimes, an expression of a movie's content is much less important than how terrible it is:
